General Information
- Smoking (AIDSmap)
- Smoking and HIV (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
- Cigarette Smoking & HIV/AIDS (TheBody) – web page with links to fact sheets and articles about smoking
Selected Recent Articles
- People with HIV Lower Risk of Heart Attack by Quitting Smoking. (October 2016, Poz)
- CT Scans Detect Early Lung Cancer in Middle-Aged Smokers with HIV. (September 2016, HIV Treatment Alerts/TheBodyPro)
- Osteoporosis and Smoking Raise Fracture Risk in People with HIV. (September 2016, HIV Treatment Alerts/TheBodyPro)
- Be a Quitter. (June 2016, Poz)
- Chest CT Scan Detects Early Lung Cancer in HIV-Positive Smokers. (April 2016, The BodyPro)
- Helping People With HIV Quit Smoking: What Works for Whom? (Spring 2016, Research Initiative/Treatment Action)
- Smoking’s Pernicious Impact Worse with HIV Infection. (Spring 2016, Research Initiative/Treatment Action)
- Step-by-Step Advice on Helping HIV-Positive Smokers Quit. (Spring 2016, Research Initiative/Treatment Action)
- Ten Things Every HIV Clinician Should Know About Smoking. (Spring 2016, Research Initiative/Treatment Action)
- Low CD4 count, smoking and unhealthy alcohol use are risk factors for acute exacerbation of COPD in people with HIV. (November 2015, AIDSmap)
- Quit-Smoking Drug Works Among People With HIV. (March 2015, Poz)
- Smoking greatly increases risk for non-AIDS cancers in people with HIV. (March 2015, Project Inform)
- People With HIV Have High Rates of Smoking, Low Rates of Quitting. (March 2015, Poz)
- Avoiding smoking could prevent 37% of non-AIDS cancers in adults with HIV. (March 2015, NATAP)
- Smoking, atherosclerosis common among MSM with HIV. (March 2015, Healio)
- Screening study finds high prevalence of early-stage lung cancer among smokers with HIV. (March 2015, AIDSmap)
- Smoking Almost Triples Heart Attack Risk in Those Living With HIV. (March 2015, TheBodyPro)
- Smoking is the biggest risk factor for non-AIDS-defining cancers in people living with HIV. (March 2015, AIDSmap)
- Varenicline helps people with HIV stop smoking, but success rate remains low. (March 2015, AIDSmap)
- Stop-Smoking Drug Helps HIV Patients Kick Habit. (March 2015, MedPage Today)
- Smoking is the main cause of increased risk of heart attack in people with HIV. (January 2015, AIDSmap)
- People on HIV Treatment Double Their Risk of Death By Smoking. (January 2015, Poz)
- Smoking Lowers Life Expectancy More Than HIV Itself. (January 2015, TheBodyPro)
- Smoking doubles risk of death for patients taking HIV therapy. (December 2014, AIDSmap)
- HIV infection associated with an increased risk of the diseases of ageing. (September 2014, AIDSmap)
- COPD Rate 7% in Global HIV Cohort – Half With COPD Never Smoked. (July 2014, NATAP)
- Smoking Harms the Immune System in People With HIV. (May 2014, Poz)
- Cancer Risk in HIV Population Linked to Viruses and Smoking. (May 2014, Poz)
- Immune suppression and smoking history are risks for HPV-related anal disease in HIV-positive gay men. (August 2013, AIDSmap)
- Mobile phone support increases chances that people living with HIV will quit smoking. (June 2013, AIDSmap)
- People With HIV in Care Smoke at Twice the Rate of Those Without. (March 2013, Poz)
- Cardiovascular Disease and Co-morbidities in HIV. (March 2013, NATAP)
- Smoking Rate Twice Higher With Than Without HIV in First National US Study. (March 2013, NATAP)
- Smoking has a bigger impact on the prognosis of HIV-positive patients than HIV-related factors. (December 2012, AIDSmap)
- HIV-Positive Smokers Lose Far More Years to Cigarettes Than to the Virus. (December 2012, Poz)
- Smoking the biggest single risk factor for acute heart disease in people with HIV. (November 2012, AIDSmap)
- HIV Contributes to Lung Cancer Risk, but Smoking Matters Most. (April 2012, Poz)
- HIV Speeds Lung Function Decline in Cohort of Smokers. (March 2012, Poz)
- Cancers in people with HIV: who gets them, and which ones? (March 2012, AIDSmap)
- Smoking cessation counselling and treatment during routine HIV care helps patients to quit. (January 2012, AIDSmap)
- Smoking, Not HIV Disease, Is Most Important Lung Cancer Risk. (January 2012, Poz)
- Smoking, not immunodeficiency or lung disease, increases lung cancer risk for patients with HIV. (January 2012, AIDSmap)
- Lung cancer is biggest killer in study of non-AIDS-defining cancers. (October 2011, AIDSmap)
- Traditional Risk Factors Greatest Risk for Bone Fractures. (July 2011, Poz)
- Mobile phone support helps patients with HIV stop smoking. (July 2011, AIDSmap)