COVID-19 and Smoking

offering evidence-based pharmacological and behavioural smoking cessation interventions by remote support. Quit lines should promote contacts with smokers with or without COVID-19, symptomatic or asymptomatic. Lockdown may result in social isolation and mental distress both increasing the need for smoking; smoking is more prevalent among economically less-advantaged groups, and they are potentially at higher risk for COVID-19. Large scale interventions should be targeted at these populations in particular.