Smoking cessation behavior in patients with a diagnosis of a non-communicable disease: The impact of perceived disease severity of and susceptibility to the disease.

"CONFLICTS OF INTEREST The authors have each completed and submitted an ICMJE form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. The authors declare that they have no competing interests, financial or otherwise, related to the current work. C. Taniguchi reports that since the initial planning of the work, this study was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant Number JP22K10886 and the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare Sciences Research Grant-in-Aid for Comprehensive Research on Life-Style Related Diseases including Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes Mellitus, Grant Number 23FA0101. A. Narisada reports that since the initial planning of the work, this study was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant Number JP22K10886 and in the past 36 months Grants have been received by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant Number JP22K17378 and JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant Number JP23K07260."

"FUNDING This work was supported by a JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant Number JP22K10886 and Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare Sciences Research Grant-in-Aid for Comprehensive Research on Life-Style Related Diseases including Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes Mellitus, Grant Number 23FA0101."