{"doi":"10.1111/add.16472","title":"Co‐action and changes in alcohol use during a smoking cessation attempt","abstract":"AIMS: Three smoking cessation studies (CARE, Break Free, Por Nuestra Salud [PNS]) were used to measure changes in average alcohol consumption, binge drinking and alcohol-related problems during a smoking cessation attempt and to explore co-action with smoking abstinence. DESIGN: CARE and PNS were longitudinal cohort cessation studies; Break Free was a two-arm randomized clinical trial. SETTING: Texas, USA. PARTICIPANTS: Participants were current smokers who were recruited from the community and received smoking cessation interventions. All participants received nicotine replacement therapy and smoking cessation counseling. CARE included 424 smokers (1/3 White, 1/3 African American and 1/3 Latino); Break Free included 399 African American smokers; PNS included 199 Spanish-speaking Mexican-American smokers. MEASUREMENTS: Weekly alcohol consumption was collected multiple times pre and post-quit, and binge drinking and alcohol-related problems were collected at baseline and 26 weeks post-quit. Analyses included only those who indicated current alcohol use. FINDINGS: Average alcohol consumption decreased from baseline to 26 weeks post-quit in CARE (F = 17.09, P < 0.001), Break Free (F = 12.08, P < 0.001) and PNS (F = 10.21, P < 0.001). Binge drinking decreased from baseline to 26 weeks post-quit in CARE (F = 3.94, P = 0.04) and Break Free (F = 10.41, P < 0.001) but not PNS. Alcohol-related problems decreased from baseline to 26 weeks post-quit in CARE (Chi-sq = 6.41, P = 0.010) and Break Free (Chi sq = 14.44, P = 0.001), but not PNS. CONCLUSIONS: Among current drinkers, alcohol use/problems appear to decrease during a smoking cessation attempt and remain low through 26 weeks after the quit attempt. Little evidence was found for co-action, with smoking abstainers and relapsers showing similar change in alcohol use/problems.","journal":"Addiction","year":2024,"id":476477,"datarank":0.19087368618475306,"base_score":1.0986122886681096,"endowment":1.0986122886681096,"self_citation_contribution":0.16479184330021646,"citation_network_contribution":0.026081842884536615,"self_endowment_contribution":0.16479184330021646,"citer_contribution":0.026081842884536615,"corpus_percentile":34.47048812562853,"corpus_rank":8472,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":2,"citers_with_citation_signal":2,"citers_with_endowment":2,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":true,"is_dataset_confidence":0.5613,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":321457,"name":"Cho Y. Lam","orcid":"0000-0001-9926-4361","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1314018,"name":"Paul E. Etcheverry","orcid":"0000-0002-2593-0058","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":503477,"name":"Virmarie Correa-Fernández","orcid":"0000-0003-2548-1085","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":443950,"name":"Miguel Ángel Cano","orcid":"0000-0002-9847-1358","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":288242,"name":"Paul M. Cinciripini","orcid":"0000-0003-2877-9928","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":444101,"name":"David W. Wetter","orcid":"0000-0002-6366-0108","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":703632,"name":"Christine Vinci","orcid":"0000-0001-8883-0989","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":57,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:06:29.605760Z","pmid":"38482972","pmcid":"PMC11831237","fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}