Predictors of past quit attempts and duration of abstinence among cigarette smokers

Layoun, Nelly; Hallit, Souheil; Waked, Mirna; Aoun–Bacha, Zeina; Godin, Isabelle; Lévêque, Alain; Dramaix, Michèle; Salameh, Pascale

doi:10.1016/j.jegh.2017.06.003

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“…In line with previous studies, 9,15 our study also found that smokers with lower nicotine addiction are more likely to make an attempt to quit smoking. Respondents with moderate to high dependency might encounter more severe withdrawal symptoms including irritability, frustration, anger, anxiety, increased appetite, and difficulty concentrating, since their last quit attempt, therefore making quitting difficult.…”

Section: Factors Associated With Attempt To Quit Smoking Among Currensupporting

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Prevalence and Factors Associated With Attempts to Quit and Smoking Cessation in Malaysia

Lim

Heng

Mohamed

et al. 2019

Asia Pac J Public Health

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Smoking cessation significantly reduces risk of smoking-related diseases and mortality. This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with attempts to quit and smoking cessation among adult current smokers in Malaysia. Data from the National E-Cigarette Survey 2016 were analyzed. Forty nine percent of current smokers had attempted to quit at least once in the past 12 months and 31.4% of the respondents were former smokers. Multivariable analysis revealed that current smokers with low nicotine addiction and aged below 45 years were more likely to attempt to quit smoking. Being married, older age group, and having tertiary education were significantly associated with smoking cessation. Only half of the current smokers ever attempted to quit smoking and only a third of smokers quit. Stronger tobacco control policies are needed in Malaysia to encourage more smokers to quit smoking. Improved access to cessation support for underprivileged smokers is also needed.

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Section: Factors Associated With Attempt To Quit Smoking Among Currensupporting

confidence: 93%

Prevalence and Factors Associated With Attempts to Quit and Smoking Cessation in Malaysia

Lim

Heng

Mohamed

et al. 2019

Asia Pac J Public Health

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“…Recent findings from Lebanon showed that the motivation to quit was significantly associated with higher stages of readiness to quit 28 and would significantly increase the odds of having a real quit attempt duration of more than one month. 29 Our findings indicated that motivation did not have significant impact on the success of quitting, though this was likely, due to the small sample size. Current smokers with extrinsic motivations (i.e., social influences) were less likely to quit successfully than intrinsic motivations (i.e., health related influences).…”

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confidence: 56%

“…Details about the translation process were presented in previous studies. 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 The Fagerstrom scale was used to assess nicotine dependence, whereas the Richmond scale was used to assess motivation to quit. The Fagerstrom scale included questions about (i) how soon after you wake up to you smoke your first cigarette, (ii) finding difficulty to refrain from smoking in places where it is forbidden, (iii) the cigarette the patient would hate most to give up, (iv) number of cigarettes smoked per day, (v) smoking frequently in the morning and (vi) smoking even if you are sick in bed most of the day.…”

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Factors associated with smoking cessation success in Lebanon

Aoun–Bacha¹,

Layoun²,

Khayat³

et al. 2018

Pharm Pract (Granada)

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Objective:The objective is to assess factors associated with the success rate of smoking cessation among Lebanese smokers in a smoking cessation center.Methods:A cross-sectional data study, conducted between March 2014 and March 2016 in an outpatient smoking cessation center with 156 enrolled patients. The patient’s nicotine dependence and motivation to quit smoking were evaluated according to the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence and Richmond tests respectively.Results:The number of packs smoked per year decreased the odds of smoking cessation success (p=0.004, ORa=0.982, CI 0.97-0.994), while the compliance with the offered treatment increased the odds of success by 7.68 times (p<0.001, ORa=7.68, CI 3.438-17.187). Highly dependent and highly motivated smokers had more success in the quitting process compared to those with a lower dependence and motivation respectively.Conclusion:Our findings showed that many factors can influence smoking cessation, an experience described as difficult, most significantly the number of packs per year and compliance with the smoking cessation treatment. Moreover, although these outcomes are not representative of the entire Lebanese population, we believe that health authorities could utilize these results when implementing upcoming smoking cessations programs. All attempts at cessation should have a goal of reducing the number of packs smoked per year to improve the chances of ceasing into the future.

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“…Accordance to a study by Layoun et al 14.8% adult smokers have changed their smoking habit due to health warning, who were motivated to quit smoking were secondarily to health warning on cigarette packet cigarette packet made more quiet attempts. 5,6 This prevalence was taken for sample size calculation. With Z=1.96 for 95% confidence limit and 9% absolute precision the sample size was calculated to be:…”

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confidence: 99%

“…9 Variables for health warning on cigarette packs contained questions on knowledge of smokers about the health warning and their response to it, motivation to quit after seeing health warning ,actual reason for quitting if required or quitted. [5][6][7][10][11][12][13]…”

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confidence: 99%

Influence of health warnings present on cigarette packets, on motivation to quit smoking, among smokers in a slum of Kolkata

Dalal

Sarkar

Tiwary

2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: The Government of India by National Health Policy 2017 has set the target of relative reduction in prevalence of current tobacco use by 15% and 30% by 2020 and 2025 respectively. The Union health ministry had notified to mandatory display new health warnings to be covering 85% of the principal display area on all tobacco products (1 April 2016).Methods: This was an observational descriptive study with cross sectional in design carried out at Baghbazar slum in Kolkata with objective to study the smoking pattern, knowledge about health warning symbols (HWS) on tobacco products among the study population and to assess their motivation to quit and influence of HWS on their motivation. A total 66 smokers were interviewed using predesigned and pre tested questionnaire and analysis done using SPSS version 1.Results: About 83.3% study subjects were presently smoking and they were smoking daily, about 10 cigarette and bidi was smoked daily (median) and median duration without smoking was 1 month. About 63.6% study subjects were highly motivated to quit smoking. Health warning was definitely motivating them to quit smoking (p=0.01) but it was not resulting in actual quitting smoking (p=1.000). The main reason for motivation for quitting smoking was self-health related factor (84.6%).Conclusions: Health warning on cigarette packets increased the awareness about ill effects of smoking and motivated the smokers to quit smoking but not compelling them to quit smoking. Mostly those who were motivated to quit smoking were actually thinking about quitting due to other reasons.

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Predictors of past quit attempts and duration of abstinence among cigarette smokers

Abstract: The promoters of smoking cessation services should consider these factors when designing comprehensive tobacco control initiatives and in service planning.

Cited by 17 publications

References 51 publications

Prevalence and Factors Associated With Attempts to Quit and Smoking Cessation in Malaysia

Prevalence and Factors Associated With Attempts to Quit and Smoking Cessation in Malaysia

Factors associated with smoking cessation success in Lebanon

Influence of health warnings present on cigarette packets, on motivation to quit smoking, among smokers in a slum of Kolkata

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