Abstract
Tobacco has been identified as the drug with the highest addiction rate and the leading cause of avoidable deaths. The current study thus aimed to identify the determinants of smoking cessation in a Brazilian population sample based on data from the National Household Sample Survey for 2008. The study analyzed socioeconomic, residential, and health-related data as well as individual habits. Data analysis used Poisson regression. The following factors were associated with smoking cessation: age 45 years or older, higher income, medical consultation in the previous 12 months, private health plan, physical exercise, believing that smoking is bad for one's health and that cigarette smoke is harmful to passive smokers, and Internet access in the household. Subjects with heart conditions, diabetes, and cancer were also more prone to quit smoking.
Highlights
Tobacco use, formerly considered a “lifestyle”, is recognized for the harm it causes to health due to the exposure to numerous toxic substances 1
Prevalence of smoking cessation among the 11,393 individuals included in the analysis was 48.18% (95%CI: 47.02; 49.32)
Smoking cessation has been assessed in relation to various factors, but some factors explored in this study have received little attention in the literature
Summary
Formerly considered a “lifestyle”, is recognized for the harm it causes to health due to the exposure to numerous toxic substances 1. With nicotine as the main psychoactive component of tobacco, smoking shows the highest addiction rate among legal and illicit drugs 2 and is further identified as the leading cause of avoidable mortality, causing some 6 million deaths every year and huge damage to the world economy. If the current trend continues, by 2030 smoking will cause an estimated 8 million deaths per year in the world 3. As for the desire to stop smoking, 45.6% of Brazilian smokers had made some attempt to quit in the previous 12 months 4. Among those that try, it is known that few succeed because of various factors, including work stress 5. A permanent increase of 10% in future cigarette prices would reduce the mean duration of smoking by 11%-13% 14
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