607: How The FDA Can Help More People Stop Smoking
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In a recent commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine, Johns Hopkins tobacco policy expert Joanna Cohen and colleagues call for the FDA to take steps to bring more smoking cessation therapies to the market. Cohen, director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about why new therapies are needed and where to find evidence to support their use. Read the full commentary here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301700. If you or someone you know needs help with quitting tobacco products, call 1-800-QUITNOW.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:31.9 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.6 | Today, how to help more people stop smoking. |
| 0:39.3 | Professor Joanna Cohen, a Bloomberg distinguished professor and director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at Johns Hopkins, |
| 0:44.8 | speaks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about tobacco cessation therapies. With a number of her colleagues |
| 0:50.2 | in the world of tobacco control, Dr. Cohen recently wrote a commentary in the New England |
| 0:55.3 | Journal of Medicine, arguing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can do more to bring |
| 1:00.8 | new options to help people quit smoking to the market. Let's listen. |
| 1:06.7 | Dr. Joanna Cohen, thank you so much for joining me on Public Health on Call. We're going to talk about tobacco and some ideas that you and others are putting forward to improve the tobacco situation in this country. |
| 1:18.6 | But let's start with where things stand today. |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah, well, let me start by saying that most of us have been affected by the death of a family member or friend as a result of |
| 1:29.6 | smoking tobacco products. And in fact, one in eight U.S. adults smoke, and that's over 30 million |
| 1:37.9 | people in this country, the highest prevalence is among some of the groups that are affected by |
| 1:43.5 | the greatest health inequities. |
| 1:46.0 | Now, some people might not realize this, but over two-thirds of people who smoke cigarettes |
| 1:52.1 | want to quit, and over half try to quit each year. But the problem is that less than one in 10 |
| 1:59.5 | people who try to quit smoking quit successfully. |
| 2:03.8 | So it's true that the rates of smoking have come down somewhat over the last few years. Is that true? |
| 2:10.3 | Yeah, we've made a lot of progress and it's particularly exciting to look at the smoking rates among young people and they continue to decrease their |
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