Quitting smoking results in a significantly reduced HIV-related symptom burden after an average of three weeks, according to a study published in the September 2007 edition of the journal, AIDS Patient Care and STDs. The authors conclude that, “along with the decreased risk of numerous adverse health outcomes associated with smoking, cessation may represent an effective way to reduce the daily impact of HIV disease and treatment side-effects.”
Smoking and HIV disease Although previous studies have found that cigarette smoking appears to decrease the effectiveness of HAART, and increase the mortality rate, and public health interventions strongly support the efforts of HIV-positive individuals to quit smoking, few studies have reported on the benefits in terms of symptoms and other quality of life measures of smoking cessation interventions.
Consequently, investigators from Houston, Texas conducted a randomised trial of a smoking cessation intervention, the secondary endpoint of which evaluated the effects of quitting smoking on both HIV-related symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
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