Predicting home smoking restrictions among African American light smokers

Am J Health Behav. 2010 Jan-Feb;34(1):110-8. doi: 10.5993/ajhb.34.1.13.

Abstract

Objective: To determine home smoking restrictions (HSR) predictors among African American light smokers (smoke <or= 10 cigarettes per day).

Methods: Data were obtained from a clinical trial testing the efficacy of nicotine gum and counseling among 755 African American light smokers.

Results: Forty percent reported adopting HSR at week 26. Implementing HSR increased with higher baseline confidence to quit (P <0.0001) and female gender (P = 0.019) and decreased with older age (P = 0.016) and reduced confidence to quit between baseline and week 26 (P <0.0001).

Conclusions: Confidence to quit, gender, and age are important factors to incorporate into interventions enhancing the adoption of HSR.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Black or African American / psychology*
  • Counseling
  • Family Health
  • Female
  • Housing
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Motivation
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Smoking / ethnology
  • Smoking Cessation / ethnology
  • Smoking Cessation / methods*
  • Smoking Prevention*
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Tobacco Smoke Pollution / prevention & control*
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Tobacco Smoke Pollution