RITA: HIV and smoking
1 February 2016. Related: On the web.
The latest issue of RITA includes three main articles.
- An interview with HIV smoking expert Jonathan Shuter on motivating and helping HIV positive smokers to quit, including discussion of his online quitting programme, “PositivelySmokeFreeMe”.
- A review article analysing smoke-ending strategies in people living with HIV.
- A review article summarising the impact of smoking on health of HIV positive people and how that impact differs from the effect of smoking in the general population.
The issue also includes two 2-page summaries: “Ten things every HIV positive smoker should know” and “Ten things every HIV clinician should know about smoking.”