ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2015
Tobacco use among low-income housing residents: does hardship motivate quit attempts?
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- Financial strain measures and associations with adult health: A systematic literature review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Pooled it
- Clinical trial recruitment of adult African American smokers from economically disadvantaged urban communities.Journal of ethnicity in substance abuseTrial
- The Earned Income Tax Credit and short-term changes in financial strain and drug use.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Gender differences in the association between modifiable risk factors and financial hardship among middle-aged and older adults.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- Financial Hardship, Motivation to Quit and Post-Quit Spending Plans among Low-Income Smokers Enrolled in a Smoking Cessation Trial.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2019Article
- Examining Reciprocal Effects of Cigarette Smoking, Food Insecurity, and Psychological Distress in the U.S.Journal of psychoactive drugsArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to examine material hardship among smokers to determine whether such hardship was positively associated with current attempts to quit tobacco use.
methodsWe analyzed cross-sectional data from the Health in Common (HIC) study, an observational study to investigate social and physical determinants of cancer risk-related behaviors among residents of low-income housing in three cities in the Boston metropolitan area. In this study, three indicators of hardship were used: food hardship, financial hardship, and material hardship (food and financial hardship combined). Logistic regression models were used to obtain the odds of currently trying to quit among current smokers in the HIC (n = 170) across hardship types experienced, adjusting for sociodemographic and psychosocial factors.
resultsFully adjusted models revealed no statistically significant association between trying to quit tobacco use and indicators of material hardship: food hardship and financial hardship present (OR 1.33 (0.42-4.2); food hardship and no financial hardship OR 3.83 (0.97-15.13); and financial hardship but no food hardship OR 0.5 (0.1-2.39).
conclusionsThese findings suggest that even in the presence of material hardship, low-income housing resident tobacco users are not more likely to quit tobacco use; therefore, cessation efforts focused on the financial benefits of quitting may be insufficient to motivate quit attempts among low-income smokers.
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