ArticleAddictive behaviors2018
Who are the smokers who never plan to quit and what do they think about the risks of using tobacco products?
Article in Addictive behaviors, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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- An approach to persons who are not willing to engage in behavioural change.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2024Review
- Study rationale and design of the PEOPLHE trial.La Radiologia medica · 2024Article
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- Short- and Long-Term Cigarette and Tobacco Abstinence Among Daily and Nondaily Older Smokers.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Article
- Cigarillo Flavor and Motivation to Quit among Co-Users of Cigarillos and Cannabis: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Intention to Quit and Predictive Factors Among Current Smokers in Vietnam: Findings From Adult Tobacco Survey 2020.Tobacco use insights · 2022Article
- The polarizing impact of numeracy, economic literacy, and science literacy on the perception of immigration.PloS one · 2022Article
- Associations between COVID-19 risk perceptions and smoking and quitting behavior among U.S. adults.Addictive behaviors reports · 2021Article
- Burden of male hardcore smokers and its characteristics among those eligible for lung cancer screening.BMC public health · 2020Article
- An experimental study of messages communicating potential harms of electronic cigarettes.PloS one · 2020Article
- Intention to Quit among Smokers in Kazakhstan: Data from 2014 Global Adult Tobacco Survey.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionSmoking cigarettes is the most harmful way to use tobacco. Smokers who do not plan to quit present a particular challenge in reducing the morbidity and mortality from tobacco use. Switching to a lower harm product might encourage them to end their use of combusted cigarettes. This study aimed to better understand smokers who do not intend to quit (including their demographic and worldviews as indicators of their social, cultural, and political dispositions) and their perceived risks of cigarettes and possible lower-risk products such as e-cigarettes.
methodsParticipants were 2572 current smokers. Data were pooled from 2015 and 2016 cross-sectional surveys of national probability samples of U.S. adults and analyzed with multivariable logistic regressions.
resultsSmokers who never plan to quit comprise 14.3% of current U.S. smokers and are more likely to be older (24.2% among 65+ years old vs. 9.8% among 18-24) and less likely to have ever used e-cigarettes. A one-unit increase in hierarchical worldview (measured on a 1-6 scale) was associated with a 20% increase in the odds of never planning to quit. Those who denied that cigarettes cause disease or death (aORs between 1.6 and 2.0) or were uncertain (aORs: 2.5-2.7) were more likely to never plan to quit compared to those who agreed. They did not view risks of e-cigarettes substantially different compared to smokers who plan to quit.
conclusionOne in seven U.S. smokers never plans to quit and might benefit from interventions which reflect their hierarchical worldviews and increase their risk perceptions of combustible cigarettes.
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