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| Age and stage of readiness for smoking cessation | | Author(s) | Melissa A Clark, William Rakowski, Frederick J Kviz |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 4, July 1997 |
| Pages | pp S212-S221 |
| Keywords | Tobacco smoking ; Attitude ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using the 1992 US National Health Interview Survey Cancer Control Supplement, relationships were analysed between stage of readiness to stop smoking and background characteristics, smoking behaviours, and smoking-related attitudes among smokers aged 18-29, 30-49, and 50 years and over. For each age group, an ordinal logistic regression model was computed to identify correlates of readiness to quit. The youngest smokers had attitudes most favourable to being ready to give up smoking. For smokers age 30-49, the influence of a medical provider and perceived health effects of smoking were important correlates of readiness. Among smokers 50 and older, those with realistic health consequences of smoking and those who perceived smoking as addictive were more likely to be ready to quit. The effectiveness of smoking cessation courses might be improved by matching interventions to a smoker's age and stage in the smoking cessation process. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125279 A |
| Classmark | ETT: DP: 3KB: 7T |
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