Westmaas JL, Thewes B, Leclair CS, et al. - Using data from the American Cancer Society's Longitudinal Study of Cancer Survivors-I, researchers assessed the links between quitting vs smoking and fear of cancer recurrence (FCR), controlling for sociodemographic, cancer-related, and health-related variables, among long-term survivors of many cancers. In 3 waves (T1-T3), they compared FCR after diagnosis between survivors currently smoking (n = 196) nearly 9 years postdiagnosis (at T3), and those who, based on T3 memory of quitting age, had stopped smoking following diagnosis (n = 97). Findings revealed a lower FCR in correlation with quitting smoking. Possibly, FCR disrupts functioning among continuing smokers. For FCR, multimodal interventions targeting both psychological distress and health-related behaviors such as smoking were recommended.