Rachel Widome1, Patrick J Hammett1,2,3, Anne M Joseph2, Diana J Burgess2,3, Janet L Thomas2, Jessie E Saul4, Barbara Clothier3, Steven S Fu2,3. 1. Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, MN, USA. 2. Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, MN, USA. 3. VA HSR&D Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR), Minneapolis VA Health Care System, MN, USA. 4. North American Quitline Consortium, Phoenix AZ, USA.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Proximal environments could facilitate smoking cessation among low-income smokers by making cessation appealing to strive for and tenable. AIMS: We sought to examine how home smoking rules and proximal environmental factors such as other household members' and peers' smoking behaviors and attitudes related to low-income smokers' past quit attempts, readiness, and self-efficacy to quit. METHODS: This analysis used data from Offering Proactive Treatment Intervention (OPT-IN) (randomized control trial of proactive tobacco cessation outreach) baseline survey, which was completed by 2,406 participants in 2011/12. We tested the associations between predictors (home smoking rules and proximal environmental factors) and outcomes (past-year quit attempts, readiness to quit, and quitting self-efficacy). RESULTS: Smokers who lived in homes with more restrictive household smoking rules, and/or reported having 'important others' who would be supportive of their quitting, were more likely to report having made a quit attempt in the past year, had greater readiness to quit, and greater self-efficacy related to quitting. CONCLUSIONS: Adjustments to proximal environments, including strengthening household smoking rules, might encourage cessation even if other household members are smokers.
INTRODUCTION: Proximal environments could facilitate smoking cessation among low-income smokers by making cessation appealing to strive for and tenable. AIMS: We sought to examine how home smoking rules and proximal environmental factors such as other household members' and peers' smoking behaviors and attitudes related to low-income smokers' past quit attempts, readiness, and self-efficacy to quit. METHODS: This analysis used data from Offering Proactive Treatment Intervention (OPT-IN) (randomized control trial of proactive tobacco cessation outreach) baseline survey, which was completed by 2,406 participants in 2011/12. We tested the associations between predictors (home smoking rules and proximal environmental factors) and outcomes (past-year quit attempts, readiness to quit, and quitting self-efficacy). RESULTS: Smokers who lived in homes with more restrictive household smoking rules, and/or reported having 'important others' who would be supportive of their quitting, were more likely to report having made a quit attempt in the past year, had greater readiness to quit, and greater self-efficacy related to quitting. CONCLUSIONS: Adjustments to proximal environments, including strengthening household smoking rules, might encourage cessation even if other household members are smokers.
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home smoking policy; low-income smokers; smoking norms; social environment
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