Perski, O;
Garnett, C;
Shahab, L;
Brown, J;
West, R;
(2020)
Associations between smoking status and bodily pain in a cross-sectional survey of UK respondents.
Addictive Behaviors
, 102
, Article 106229. 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106229.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Research indicates that ex- and current smokers report increased levels of bodily pain compared with never smokers. This could be secondary to smoking-related disease or psychological characteristics of smokers, or it could be a neurological or vascular effect of a period of regular smoking. AIMS: We compared self-reported levels of bodily pain in daily, never daily and former daily smokers stratified by age group and adjusting for a wider range of covariates than has been undertaken to-date, including health status, neuroticism, anxiety and depression. METHOD: 223,537 UK respondents aged 16+ years were surveyed between 2009 and 2013 in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Lab UK Study. Respondents provided information on bodily pain, smoking status and a range of sociodemographic, health, behavioural and psychological characteristics. RESULTS: After adjusting for all covariates, in 16-34-year-olds, reported levels of bodily pain in former daily smokers (B_{adj} = 0.72, 95% CI = 0.30, 1.15, p < .001) and daily smokers (B_{adj} = 0.50, 95% CI = 0.18, 0.82, p < .01) were higher than in never daily smokers. Reported levels of bodily pain were also higher in former daily smokers than in never daily smokers in those aged 35–64 (B_{adj} = 1.04, 95% CI = 0.69, 1.38, p < .001) and 65 + years (B_{adj} = 1.65, 95% CI = 0.07, 3.24, p < .05). CONCLUSIONS: After adjusting for key characteristics, former daily smokers reported higher levels of bodily pain compared with never daily smokers at all ages. This raises the possibility that a period of smoking may have lasting effects on pain experiences.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Associations between smoking status and bodily pain in a cross-sectional survey of UK respondents |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106229 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106229 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Tobacco smoker, Former daily smoker, PainCross-sectional, BBC Lab UK Study |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086266 |
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