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The use of cessation assistance among smokers from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey
BACKGROUND: Stop smoking medications significantly increase the likelihood of smoking cessation. However, there are no population-based studies of stop-smoking medication use in China, the largest tobacco market in the world. This study examined stop-smoking medication use and its association with q...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21288361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-75 |
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author | Yang, Jilan Hammond, David Driezen, Pete O'Connor, Richard J Li, Qiang Yong, Hua-Hie Fong, Geoffrey T Jiang, Yuan |
author_facet | Yang, Jilan Hammond, David Driezen, Pete O'Connor, Richard J Li, Qiang Yong, Hua-Hie Fong, Geoffrey T Jiang, Yuan |
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description | BACKGROUND: Stop smoking medications significantly increase the likelihood of smoking cessation. However, there are no population-based studies of stop-smoking medication use in China, the largest tobacco market in the world. This study examined stop-smoking medication use and its association with quitting behavior among a population-based sample of Chinese smokers. METHODS: Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 4,627 smokers from six cities in the ITC China cohort survey. Longitudinal analyses were conducted using Wave 1 (April to August, 2006) and Wave 2 (November 2007 to January 2008). RESULTS: Approximately 26% of smokers had attempted to quit between Waves 1 and 2, and 6% were abstinent at 18-month follow-up. Only 5.8% of those attempting to quit reported NRT use and NRT was associated with lower odds of abstinence at Wave 2 (OR = 0.11; 95%CI = 0.03-0.46). Visiting a doctor/health professional was associated with greater attempts to quit smoking (OR = 1.60 and 2.78; 95%CI = 1.22-2.10 and 2.21-3.49 respectively) and being abstinent (OR = 1.77 and 1.85; 95%CI = 1.18-2.66 and 1.13-3.04 respectively) at 18-month follow-up relative to the smokers who did not visit doctor/health professional. CONCLUSIONS: The use of formal help for smoking cessation is low in China. There is an urgent need to explore the use and effectiveness of stop-smoking medications in China and in other non-Western markets. |
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spelling | pubmed-30446602011-02-25 The use of cessation assistance among smokers from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey Yang, Jilan Hammond, David Driezen, Pete O'Connor, Richard J Li, Qiang Yong, Hua-Hie Fong, Geoffrey T Jiang, Yuan BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Stop smoking medications significantly increase the likelihood of smoking cessation. However, there are no population-based studies of stop-smoking medication use in China, the largest tobacco market in the world. This study examined stop-smoking medication use and its association with quitting behavior among a population-based sample of Chinese smokers. METHODS: Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 4,627 smokers from six cities in the ITC China cohort survey. Longitudinal analyses were conducted using Wave 1 (April to August, 2006) and Wave 2 (November 2007 to January 2008). RESULTS: Approximately 26% of smokers had attempted to quit between Waves 1 and 2, and 6% were abstinent at 18-month follow-up. Only 5.8% of those attempting to quit reported NRT use and NRT was associated with lower odds of abstinence at Wave 2 (OR = 0.11; 95%CI = 0.03-0.46). Visiting a doctor/health professional was associated with greater attempts to quit smoking (OR = 1.60 and 2.78; 95%CI = 1.22-2.10 and 2.21-3.49 respectively) and being abstinent (OR = 1.77 and 1.85; 95%CI = 1.18-2.66 and 1.13-3.04 respectively) at 18-month follow-up relative to the smokers who did not visit doctor/health professional. CONCLUSIONS: The use of formal help for smoking cessation is low in China. There is an urgent need to explore the use and effectiveness of stop-smoking medications in China and in other non-Western markets. BioMed Central 2011-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3044660/ /pubmed/21288361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-75 Text en Copyright ©2011 Yang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Yang, Jilan Hammond, David Driezen, Pete O'Connor, Richard J Li, Qiang Yong, Hua-Hie Fong, Geoffrey T Jiang, Yuan The use of cessation assistance among smokers from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey |
title | The use of cessation assistance among smokers from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey |
title_full | The use of cessation assistance among smokers from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey |
title_fullStr | The use of cessation assistance among smokers from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey |
title_full_unstemmed | The use of cessation assistance among smokers from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey |
title_short | The use of cessation assistance among smokers from China: Findings from the ITC China Survey |
title_sort | use of cessation assistance among smokers from china: findings from the itc china survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3044660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21288361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-75 |
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