Who Smokes and Who Quits? (focus on social class)

1
Who Smokes and Who Quits? (focus on social class)

• Elizabeth M. Barbeau, ScD, MPHDana-Farber Cancer
  InstituteHarvard School of Pubic Health

2
Key points on social class and quitting

• The prevalence of quit attempts by various
  measures of social class (education, occupation,
  income) do not show much of a gradient.
• Success in quitting, however, is inversely
  related to social class.
• So, too, is the use of cessation aids.

3
Quitting Attempts and Successby Education --
NHIS 2000
Source Trosclair et al, 2002
4
Quitting Attempts and Successby Income -- NHIS
2000
Source Trosclair et al, 2002
5
Quit Attempts and Success by Occupation -- NHIS,
1997
n 25,831
Data Source National Health Interview Survey,
1997 Giovino et al, 2002
6
Research Question We Will Pursue

• Socioeconomically disadvantaged groups are less
  successful in quitting, despite similar rates of
  quit attempts.
• Can this lower rate of success be accounted for
  by lower use of cessation aids?

7
Prevalence of use of tobacco cessation aids among
adult smokers who attempted to quit for one day
or longer, by education, NHIS--2000
Source V. Cokkinides, 2005, personal
communication
8
Prevalence of use of tobacco cessation aids among
adult smokers who attempted to quit for one day
or longer, by annual household income, NHIS2000
Source V. Cokkinides, 2005, personal
communication