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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15465142
AutoresJun Hyun Hwang (0000-0001-8547-0893, Daegu Catholic University), Soon-Woo Park (0000-0001-9795-7914, Daegu Catholic University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen18
Número6
Páginas2899-2899
Fecha de publicación2021-03-12
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
EditorialMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph18062899
PMID33809014
OpenAlexW3136981871
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas24

Few studies have simultaneously considered the effects of significant others and medical professionals' advice to quit smoking on smoking cessation intention. The present study involved 3841 current adult Korean smokers, divided into four groups with an intention to quit within 1 month, within 6 months, someday, and without intention to quit. Multinomial multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted according to smoking cessation intention level, adjusted for potential confounders, including past smoking cessation attempts. Smokers who had been advised to quit smoking by both significant others and medical professionals, significant others only, and medical professionals only were 2.63 (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.62-4.29), 1.84 (95% CI: 1.17-2.89), and 1.44 (95% CI: 0.70-2.94) times more likely to intend to quit within 1 month, respectively, than those who were not advised to quit. The odds ratios of an intention to quit within 6 months were 2.91 (95% CI: 1.87-4.54), 2.49 (95% CI: 1.69-3.68), and 0.94 (95% CI: 0.44-2.05), respectively. To promote smokers' intention to quit, the role of significant others should be considered. Medical professionals' advice to quit smoking remains important, increasing the effects of significant others' advice

Confidence interval · Confounding · Family medicine · Health care · Health professionals · Logistic regression · Medical advice · Multinomial logistic regression · Odds · Odds ratio · Psychiatry · Quit smoking · Smoking cessation · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Demography · Medicine · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Internal Medicine