Table 3:
Reasons Quit Smoking and Methods Used among Current Smokers Who Ever Quit for 6 Months or Longer and Former Smokersa
| Overall |
Women |
Men |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current smoker – ever tried to quit (n=1705) | No longer smokes (n=3233) | Current smoker –ever tried to quit (n=841) | No longer smokes (n=1533) | Current smoker – ever tried to quit (n=864) | No longer smokes (n=1700) | |||||||
| nb | column %c | nb | column %c | nb | column %c | |||||||
| Reason quit smoking, % | *** | *** | ** | |||||||||
| Advice of physician | 282 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 135 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 147 | 3.3 | 5.5 | |||
| Health reasons, self-initiated | 3662 | 69.2 | 77.8 | 1659 | 56.4 | 75.0 | 2003 | 78.7 | 79.5 | |||
| Pressure from others | 459 | 10.1 | 9.2 | 208 | 7.9 | 8.6 | 251 | 11.8 | 9.6 | |||
| Religion-related | 87 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 49 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 38 | 0.8 | 1.8 | |||
| For sake of family/others | 71 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 35 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 36 | 0.3 | 1.3 | |||
| Pregnancy-related | 214 | 10.3 | 1.4 | 211 | 23.6 | 3.5 | 3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |||
| Cost/financial burden | 52 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 25 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 27 | 1.0 | 0.8 | |||
| Death of family member/friend | 10 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||
| Illness of family member/friend | 14 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 11 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |||
| Institutionalized (jail/hospital/other) | 27 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 23 | 2.6 | 0.1 | |||
| Other/refused | 43 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 23 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 20 | 1.1 | 1.0 | |||
| Quit methods ever used, % d | ||||||||||||
| None | 4414 | 86.7 | 92.6 | *** | 2083 | 84.2 | 92.0 | *** | 2331 | 88.7 | 93.0 | ** |
| Prescription | 298 | 7.7 | 4.0 | *** | 171 | 8.6 | 5.0 | * | 127 | 7.0 | 3.3 | ** |
| Over the counter aid | 304 | 7.6 | 4.5 | *** | 169 | 9.8 | 4.1 | *** | 135 | 6.0 | 4.7 | |
| Behavioral/group therapy | 96 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 53 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 43 | 2.0 | 1.5 | |||
| Use of any quit method, by Hispanic/Latino background, %e | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||||||
| Dominican | 285 | 16.9 | 10.5 | 170 | 16.1 | 13.1 | 115 | 18.8 | 8.0 | |||
| Central American | 426 | 8.9 | 6.9 | 194 | 13.1 | 13.5 | 232 | 6.6 | 2.4 | |||
| Cuban | 803 | 8.2 | 5.9 | 369 | 6.7 | 5.3 | 434 | 9.3 | 6.3 | |||
| Mexican | 1970 | 7.4 | 3.0 | 903 | 11.6 | 3.7 | 1067 | 5.0 | 2.7 | |||
| Puerto Rican | 970 | 27.8 | 19.5 | 526 | 30.7 | 18.9 | 444 | 25.4 | 20.1 | |||
| South American | 307 | 9.7 | 3.6 | 130 | 10.3 | 1.7 | 177 | 8.9 | 4.6 | |||
| Other/more than one | 162 | 14.5 | 12.6 | 76 | 16.3 | 5.2 | 86 | 12.6 | 16.0 | |||
a –
Based on HCHS/SOL study, Chicago, Miami, Bronx, San Diego, 2008-2011
b -
Subgroup n’s may not add up to column totals due to missing data
c -
All values are column percents
d -
Categories are not mutually-exclusive
e -
P-values not computed for comparisons within Hispanic/Latino background subgroups due to wide variations in group sample sizes; overall, Hispanic/Latino background was a significant predictor of using quit aids and/or therapy in both women (p<0.0001) and men (p<0.0001)
*
P<0.05
**
P<0.01
***
P<0.001
P-values based on omnibus test for any differences between groups