ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2016
Better Off Alone Than With a Smoker: The Influence of Partner's Smoking Behavior in Later Life.
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- Factors motivating smoking cessation: a cross-sectional study in a lower-middle-income country.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Inside the adolescent voice: A qualitative analysis of the appeal of different tobacco products.Tobacco induced diseases · 2021Article
- Early-Life Adversities and Recalcitrant Smoking in Midlife: An Examination of Gender and Life-Course Pathways.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2020Article
- Informal and Formal Social Integration Shape Eating and Drinking of Older Black and White Americans.Journal of aging and health · 2020Article
- Tobacco control policy and smoking among older Americans: An analysis of a nationally-representative longitudinal sample (1992-2014).Preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Sex Differences in Use of Smoking Cessation Services and Resources: A Real-World Study.Tobacco use insights · 2020Article
- Participation in a workplace smoking cessation program incentivized by lowering the cost of health care coverage: Findings from the LLUH BREATHE cohort.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2020Article
- Influence of Social Connections on Smoking Behavior across the Life Course.Advances in life course research · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe examine how the likelihood of smoking cessation among smokers and patterns of adherence to smoking cessation differ by partnership status, partnership changes, and partners' smoking behavior. The data are a nationally representative sample of smokers in middle and older age from the Health and Retirement Study (1992-2010).
methodWe use multivariate logistic regression models to analyze the likelihood of smoking cessation among smokers and then estimate adherence to smoking cessation using discrete-time event history models.
resultsThose partnered with smokers and those whose partners relapse into smoking are much less likely than the unpartnered to quit smoking and adhere to smoking cessation. Respondents partnered with non-smokers and those whose partners quit smoking are more likely to quit smoking than the unpartnered. Those recently widowed, divorced, and repartnered have similar smoking changes to the consistently unpartnered. DISCUSSION: Being partnered does not always mean healthier behavior changes. Rather, the association between partnership status and smoking changes depends greatly on the health behavior changes of the partner. The partnership context at the time of smoking cessation sets the stage for longer term patterns of adherence, shaping health in older age.
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