Smoking Cessation Intention and Its Association with Advice to Quit from Significant Others and Medical Professionals

Hwang, Jun Hyun; Park, Soon-Woo

doi:10.3390/ijerph18062899

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“…A similar study to ours, using data of Korean adult smokers, found that a doctors' advice to quit alone increases the likelihood of a smoker's intention to quit within 1 month (OR = 2.14, p < 0.05), but not within 6 months or someday in the future. However, it is likely to increase the effect of a significant other's advice [26]. In other words, smokers who had been advised to quit smoking by both significant others and medical professionals are more likely to consider quitting than those who had been advised to quit by significant others only.…”

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Health Knowledge about Smoking, Role of Doctors, and Self-Perceived Health: A Cross-Sectional Study on Smokers’ Intentions to Quit

Liu

Huang

et al. 2021

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Limited empirical work has been done to compare the effects that health knowledge and advice from doctors have on smokers’ intentions to quit. This paper examines the association of smokers’ intentions to quit with health knowledge, advice from doctors, and self-perceived health. A sample of 2509 smokers aged 15–69 years old in Ningbo was used from China’s National Health Literacy Surveillance survey, conducted in 2018 and 2019. Respondents were asked whether they agree smoking causes stroke, heart attack, lung cancer; and heart diseases in adults, lung illnesses in children, and lung cancer in adults, by secondhand smoke, respectively. Using the logistic model, we found that knowing that smoking causes stroke and lung cancer more than doubles the odds of one’s intention to quit (OR = 2.705, p < 0.01), the effect of which is much greater than knowing that smoking causes lung cancer only (OR = 1.795, p < 0.01). Doctors’ advice to quit is more important than health knowledge, in terms of predicting smokers’ past cessation behaviours. In addition, smokers’ self-perceived health is negatively associated with their decisions to quit. This paper highlights that more resources should be directed towards training health care providers to advise smokers to quit, which might be more effective than health education alone.

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Health Knowledge about Smoking, Role of Doctors, and Self-Perceived Health: A Cross-Sectional Study on Smokers’ Intentions to Quit

Liu

Huang

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“…Additionally, smokers with spouses or partners were more likely to have an intention to quit smoking than smokers who were single. Receiving advice from a significant other to quit smoking was previously shown to be related to quit intentions [ 28 ]. This finding highlights the significant role of spouses or partners in encouraging smokers to want to quit.…”

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“…Few studies assessing the factors associated with quit intentions have been conducted in South Korea (see Supplementary Table S1 ) [ 18 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 ]. Two of these studies [ 18 , 24 ], conducted by the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) Project, reported that sociodemographic factors, smoking-related beliefs, smoking restrictions at home, tobacco-related knowledge, and nicotine dependence were associated with having a quit intention [ 18 , 24 ].…”

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Factors Associated with Quit Intentions among Adult Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey

Han

Seo

Kim

et al. 2022

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Background: South Korea has made substantial progress on tobacco control, but cigarette smoking prevalence is still high. Previous studies were conducted before the use of nicotine vaping products (NVPs) or heated tobacco products (HTPs) became popular. Thus, whether the concurrent use of NVPs or HTPs affects quit intentions among Korean smokers remains a question that needs to be explored. This study aims to identify predictors of quit intentions among cigarette-only smokers and concurrent users of cigarettes and NVPs or HTPs. Methods: Data were from the 2020 International Tobacco Control Korea Survey. Included in the analysis were 3778 adult cigarette smokers: 1900 at-least-weekly exclusive smokers and 1878 at-least-weekly concurrent smokers and HTP or NVP users. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses were conducted. Results: Quit intentions were reported by 66.4% of respondents. Factors significantly associated with quit intentions included younger age, having a spouse/partner, lower nicotine dependence, reporting a past quit attempt, regretting starting smoking, believing that smoking had damaged health, worrying that smoking will damage future health, and perceiving health benefits of quitting. Current use of NVPs or HTPs was not significantly associated with quit intentions. Conclusions: This study contributes the following to current literature: intrinsic health-related beliefs were more important than societal norms in shaping quit intentions. These findings should be considered in shaping future smoking cessation policies, such as reinforcing education programs that emphasize the benefits of quitting for personal health reasons, lowering nicotine dependence, and encouraging multiple quit attempts and successful quitting.

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“…Another study reported that self-efficacy is positively associated with the intention to quit smoking but negatively related to risk perception, which weakens its effect on the overall intention to quit [45]. According to Hwang and Park [46], significant others are a major factor in smokers' intention to quit. Therefore, the intention to quit may only partially explain cessation behaviors, with self-efficacy and the support and assistance of significant others potentially playing major roles in smoking cessation.…”

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Depression is a predictor for both smoking and quitting intentions among male coronary artery disease patients

Wei

Huang

Tsai

et al. 2023

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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the third most prominent cause of death globally, and smoking is the most common risk factors for CAD. However, few studies have examined both smoking and smoking cessation intentions in patients with CAD. The study aims to explore the predictors for smoking and quitting intentions among male CAD patients. This was a cross-sectional study. A total of 368 male CAD patients were recruited and classified into never smoked, quit smoking, and continuing to smoke three groups. Demographic information, level of nicotine dependence, carbon monoxide concentration, depression, and resilience were analyzed by using t-test, one- way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and least significant difference (LSD) post-hoc test and the multiple logistic regression analysis. The results revealed that among participants, 23.1% had never smoked, 40.5% had quit smoking, and 36.4% continued to smoke. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that age (OR=0.95, 95% CI=0.90–0.99), carbon monoxide (OR=1.74, 95% CI=1.51–2.01), and depression (OR=1.13, 95% CI=1.04–1.23) predicted participants who continued to smoke. Among the 134 participants who continued to smoke, 35.8% exhibited no intention to quit, and 64.2% planned to quit. Nicotine dependence (OR=0.79, 95% CI=0.66–0.94) and depression (OR=1.10, 95% CI=1.02–1.20) were significant predictors in participants who intended to quit smoking. The study demonstrates that depression is a significant predictor for both smoking and quitting intentions among male CAD patients.

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Smoking Cessation Intention and Its Association with Advice to Quit from Significant Others and Medical Professionals

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Health Knowledge about Smoking, Role of Doctors, and Self-Perceived Health: A Cross-Sectional Study on Smokers’ Intentions to Quit

Health Knowledge about Smoking, Role of Doctors, and Self-Perceived Health: A Cross-Sectional Study on Smokers’ Intentions to Quit

Factors Associated with Quit Intentions among Adult Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey

Depression is a predictor for both smoking and quitting intentions among male coronary artery disease patients

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