Sophia Papadakis1,2, Paraskevi Katsaounou3,4, Christina N Kyriakos1,5, James Balmford6, Chara Tzavara3, Charis Girvalaki1,5, Pete Driezen7, Filippos T Filippidis4,8, Aleksandra Herbeć9,10, Karin Hummel11, Ann McNeill12, Ute Mons13, Esteve Fernández14,15,16,17, Marcela Fu14,15,16,17, Antigona C Trofor18,19, Tibor Demjén20, Witold A Zatoński21,22, Marc Willemsen11, Geoffrey T Fong7,23, Constantine I Vardavas1,5. 1. School of Medicine, University of Crete (UoC), Heraklion, Greece. 2. Division of Prevention and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 3. First ICU Evaggelismos Hospital Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 4. Center for Health Services Research, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 5. European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP), Brussels, Belgium. 6. Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 7. Department of Psychology and School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo (UW), Waterloo, Canada. 8. Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK. 9. Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK. 10. Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group, University College London, London, UK. 11. Department of Health Promotion, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. 12. Department of Addictions, King's College London, London, UK. 13. German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Cancer Prevention Unit and WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Control, Heidelberg, Germany. 14. Tobacco Control Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Catalonia. 15. Tobacco Control Research Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia. 16. School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bellvitge Campus, Universitat de Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia. 17. Consortium for Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases (CIBER of Respiratory Diseases, CIBERES), Madrid, Spain. 18. University of Medicine and Pharmacy 'Grigore T. Popa' Iasi, Iasi, Romania. 19. Aer Pur Romania, Bucharest, Romania. 20. Smoking or Health Hungarian Foundation (SHHF), Budapest, Hungary. 21. Health Promotion Foundation, Warsaw, Poland. 22. European Observatory of Health Inequalities, President Stanisław Wojciechowski State University of Applied Sciences, Kalisz, Poland. 23. Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: We examined quit attempts, use of cessation assistance, quitting beliefs and intentions among smokers who participated in the 2018 International Tobacco Control (ITC) Europe Surveys in eight European Union Member States (England, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Spain). METHODS: Cross-sectional data from 11 543 smokers were collected from Wave 2 of the ITC Six European Country (6E) Survey (Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Spain-2018), the ITC Netherlands Survey (the Netherlands-late 2017) and the Four Countries Smoking and Vaping (4CV1) Survey (England-2018). Logistic regression was used to examine associations between smokers' characteristics and recent quit attempts. RESULTS: Quit attempts in the past 12 months were more frequently reported by respondents in the Netherlands (33.0%) and England (29.3%) and least frequently in Hungary (11.5%), Greece (14.7%), Poland (16.7%) and Germany (16.7%). With the exception of England (35.9%), the majority (56-84%) of recent quit attempts was unaided. Making a quit attempt was associated with younger age, higher education and income, having a smoking-related illness and living in England. In all countries, the majority of continuing smokers did not intend to quit in the next 6 months, had moderate to high levels of nicotine dependence and perceived quitting to be difficult. CONCLUSIONS: Apart from England and the Netherlands, smokers made few quit attempts in the past year and had low intentions to quit in the near future. The use of cessation assistance was sub-optimal. There is a need to examine approaches to supporting quitting among the significant proportion of tobacco users in Europe and increase the use of cessation support as part of quit attempts.
BACKGROUND: We examined quit attempts, use of cessation assistance, quitting beliefs and intentions among smokers who participated in the 2018 International Tobacco Control (ITC) Europe Surveys in eight European Union Member States (England, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Spain). METHODS: Cross-sectional data from 11 543 smokers were collected from Wave 2 of the ITC Six European Country (6E) Survey (Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Spain-2018), the ITC Netherlands Survey (the Netherlands-late 2017) and the Four Countries Smoking and Vaping (4CV1) Survey (England-2018). Logistic regression was used to examine associations between smokers' characteristics and recent quit attempts. RESULTS: Quit attempts in the past 12 months were more frequently reported by respondents in the Netherlands (33.0%) and England (29.3%) and least frequently in Hungary (11.5%), Greece (14.7%), Poland (16.7%) and Germany (16.7%). With the exception of England (35.9%), the majority (56-84%) of recent quit attempts was unaided. Making a quit attempt was associated with younger age, higher education and income, having a smoking-related illness and living in England. In all countries, the majority of continuing smokers did not intend to quit in the next 6 months, had moderate to high levels of nicotine dependence and perceived quitting to be difficult. CONCLUSIONS: Apart from England and the Netherlands, smokers made few quit attempts in the past year and had low intentions to quit in the near future. The use of cessation assistance was sub-optimal. There is a need to examine approaches to supporting quitting among the significant proportion of tobacco users in Europe and increase the use of cessation support as part of quit attempts.
Authors: Ron Borland; Lin Li; Pete Driezen; Nick Wilson; David Hammond; Mary E Thompson; Geoffrey T Fong; Ute Mons; Marc C Willemsen; Ann McNeill; James F Thrasher; K Michael Cummings Journal: Addiction Date: 2012-01 Impact factor: 6.526
Authors: Filippos T Filippidis; Anthony A Laverty; Ute Mons; Carlos Jimenez-Ruiz; Constantine I Vardavas Journal: Tob Control Date: 2018-03-21 Impact factor: 7.552
Authors: Karin Hummel; Gera E Nagelhout; Geoffrey T Fong; Constantine I Vardavas; Sophia Papadakis; Aleksandra Herbeć; Ute Mons; Bas van den Putte; Ron Borland; Esteve Fernández; Hein de Vries; Ann McNeill; Shannon Gravely; Krzysztof Przewoźniak; Piroska Kovacs; Antigona C Trofor; Marc C Willemsen Journal: Tob Induc Dis Date: 2018 Impact factor: 2.600