High Rates of Smoking Especially in Female Crohn’s Disease Patients and Low Use of Supportive Measures to Achieve Smoking Cessation—Data from the Swiss IBD Cohort Study

Abstract

Despite well-established detrimental effects, smoking rates in CD are alarmingly high with persistent and stagnating elevations compared with the GSP, especially in female patients. Importantly, there appears to be an unacceptable underuse of supportive measures to achieve smoking cessation.