Abstract
BackgroundRelatively little is known about which characteristics of smokers are related to choosing a specific type of smoking cessation service. The user characteristics of different smoking cessation services were compared to determine the service preferred by user characteristics.MethodsThe characteristics of adult smokers from Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (3762) and registered users of national smoking cessation services operated through the web (14,762), at Public Health Center-based Smoking Cessation Clinics (PHC-based SCCs) (335,532), and by telephone (Quitline) (2983) were compared.ResultsFemales and younger aged were more in web and telephone-based cessation service users, while aged 50 years or older were more in PHC-based SCCs users. Although manufacturing and production workers were the most prevalent among smokers in the general population, office workers and others including housewives and unemployed were most prevalent among the users of Quitline and PHC-based SCCs, respectively. The number of cigarettes smoked per day was twice as high among cessation service users as in general population. Smokers with greater nicotine dependency were most prevalent in the web-based service. Overseas users were in the web-based cessation service.ConclusionIdentifying user-specific characteristics by the type of cessation services looks necessary to develop and offer appropriate cessation services.
Highlights
Little is known about which characteristics of smokers are related to choosing a specific type of smoking cessation service
In the Republic of Korea, where the prevalence of smoking is high despite significant progress in reducing that rate from 28.8% in 2005 to 23.2% in 2013 and smoking-attributable mortality has been increased from 30.8% in 2003 to 34.7% in 2012 for male, three types of smoking cessation services have been developed and adopted at the national level with governmental support. [10, 11] a large proportion (57.5%) of current Korean smokers has tried to quit, and public health center (PHC)-based Smoking Cessation Clinic (SCC) has been described as highly cost effective service. [12, 13]
The present study aimed to identify which type of smokers choose which type of cessation service as well as how the users of cessation services differ from smokers in the general population
Summary
Little is known about which characteristics of smokers are related to choosing a specific type of smoking cessation service. The type of service differs among countries depending on the available resources, at least two types of cessation services are offered together to achieve user convenience and increase coverage in some. Jeong et al BMC Health Services Research (2019) 19:14 services, which is important to determine the most appropriate type of service for the target population and to make each service could focus more on appropriate target population In this context, the present study aimed to identify which type of smokers choose which type of cessation service as well as how the users of cessation services differ from smokers in the general population In the Republic of Korea, where the prevalence of smoking is high despite significant progress in reducing that rate from 28.8% in 2005 to 23.2% in 2013 and smoking-attributable mortality has been increased from 30.8% in 2003 to 34.7% in 2012 for male (from 5.78% in 2003 to 7.2% in 2012 for female), three types of smoking cessation services have been developed and adopted at the national level with governmental support. [10, 11] a large proportion (57.5%) of current Korean smokers has tried to quit, and PHC-based SCCs has been described as highly cost effective service. [12, 13].
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