Rawaida Mat Salleh

Rawaida Mat Salleh


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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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3 February 2023 in Healthcare
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RSRawaida Mat Salleh
Rawaida Mat Salleh
Nizam BaharomNizam Baharom
Nizam Baharom
CSChing Sin Siau
Ching Sin Siau
CCCaryn Mei Hsien Chan
Caryn Mei Hsien Chan
NANoh Amit
Noh Amit
LWLei Hum Wee
Lei Hum Wee
Electronic cigarettes (ECs) users’ profiles and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic remain unclear. This cross-sectional study aimed to explore Malaysian EC users’ profiles and their associations with related behaviors during the pandemic. The EC users (N = 351) were recruited from an official national vape entity. Respondents were predominantly of Malay ethnicity (90.6%), aged 31 to 35 years (27.6%), males (97.7%), married (68.7%), from Malaysia’s west region states (63.5%) and tertiary educated (69.2%). The majority (80.3%) were non-dual users, and most purchased their vaping products online (77.2%), liked that they can vape while working at home (83.8%) and vaped more because of boredom (55.3%), had low and moderate nicotine addiction levels (94.9%), had low motivation level to quit EC use (92.6%) and were more likely to perceive that vaping did not increase the chances of complications from COVID-19. Respondents with moderate to high addiction levels had twice the odds of checking on their current EC supplies, whilst respondents with low motivation to quit had higher odds of using their tank/pod until the last drop and distancing from others when vaping. EC users should be encouraged to quit EC use, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.