Transitions in smoking and nicotine use from 2016 to 2017 among a UK cohort of adult smokers and ex-smokers

摘要

Introduction and Aims Smokers differ in how they smoke and how they stop smoking. Use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and e-cigarettes further diversifies smokers. We aimed to identify and compare latent groups of past-year smokers and to describe longitudinal transitions between the identified groups.