{"doi":"10.18332/tid/159177","title":"Pod-based e-cigarette use among US college-aged adults: Asurvey on the perception of health effects, sociodemographiccorrelates, and interplay with other tobacco products","abstract":"INTRODUCTION: E-cigarette use among youth and young adults remains of public health concern. Pod-based e-cigarettes, including JUUL, significantly changed the e-cigarette landscape in the US. Using an online survey, we explored the socio-behavioral correlates, predisposing factors, and addictive behaviors, among young adult pod-mod users within a University in Maryland, USA. METHODS: In total, 112 eligible college students aged 18-24 years, recruited from a University in Maryland, who reported using pod-mods were included in this study. Participants were categorized into current/non-current users based on past-30-day use. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze participants' responses. RESULTS: The mean age of the survey participants was 20.5 ± 1.2 years, 56.3% were female, 48.2% White, and 40.2% reported past-30-day (current) use of pod-mods. The mean age of first experimentation with pod-mods was 17.8 ± 1.4 years, while the mean age of regular use was 18.5 ± 1.4 years, with the majority (67.9%) citing social influence as the reason for initiation. Of the current users, 62.2% owned their own devices, and 82.2% predominantly used JUUL and menthol flavor (37.8%). A significant proportion of current users (73.3%) reported buying pods in person, 45.5% of whom were aged <21 years. Among all participants, 67% had had a past serious quit attempt. Among them, 89.3% neither used nicotine replacement therapy nor prescription medications. Finally, current use (adjusted odds ratio, AOR=4.52; 95% CI: 1.76-11.64), JUUL use (AOR=2.56; 95% CI: 1.08-6.03), and menthol flavor (AOR=6.52; 95% CI: 1.38-30.89) were associated with reduced nicotine autonomy, a measure of addiction. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings provide specific data to inform the development of public health interventions targeted at college youth, including the need for more robust cessation support for pod-mod users.","journal":"Tobacco Induced Diseases","year":2023,"id":380635,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9571,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1146334,"name":"S. M. Uddin","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":653012,"name":"Ellen Boakye","orcid":"0000-0002-7625-9487","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":360822,"name":"Albert D. Osei","orcid":"0000-0002-3901-0471","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":456718,"name":"Mohammadhassan Mirbolouk","orcid":"0000-0001-9612-3352","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":456719,"name":"Olusola A. Orimoloye","orcid":"0000-0001-6858-1057","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":236228,"name":"Omar Dzaye","orcid":"0000-0001-9483-3510","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":281211,"name":"Omar El‐Shahawy","orcid":"0000-0003-3342-6377","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":98931,"name":"Andrew Stokes","orcid":"0000-0002-8502-3636","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":456720,"name":"Andrew P. DeFilippis","orcid":"0000-0002-5135-9748","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1034,"name":"Emelia J. Benjamin","orcid":"0000-0003-4076-2336","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":71977,"name":"Michael J. Blaha","orcid":"0000-0001-5138-9683","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":456717,"name":"Olufunmilayo H. Obisesan","orcid":"0000-0001-7247-5257","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":27,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:17:04.905707Z","pmid":"36875734","pmcid":null,"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":[]}