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cord-252218-jrgl0x06	Heerfordt, C.	Has there been an increased interest in smoking cessation during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic? A Google Trends study	2020-04-20		.txt	text/plain	867	66	65	8 We retrieved worldwide public query data for the following terms: 'quit smoking', 'smoking cessation', 'help quit smoking' and 'nicotine gum' between 9 January 2020 and 6 April 2020. The Google Trends data for Web search queries for the terms 'smoking cessation' and 'nicotine gum' from 9 January 2020 to 6 April 2020 are shown in Fig. 1 . Previous Google Trends studies have found increased numbers of seaches relating to smoking cessation in association with the launch of national smoking cessation programmes and changes in tobacco control policies. 10 We found no increase in the number of searches for smoking cessation on Google in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Smoking cessation campaigns are important as smokers are more vulnable to viral infections and lung diseases, and appear to have worse outcomes when hospitalised with COVID-19 than non-smokers. Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study	./cache/cord-252218-jrgl0x06.txt	./txt/cord-252218-jrgl0x06.txt