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Published in: Cancer Causes & Control 11/2015

01-11-2015 | Brief report

Tobacco use among low-income housing residents: does hardship motivate quit attempts?

Authors: R. D. Tucker-Seeley, S. Selk, I. Adams, J. D. Allen, G. Sorensen

Published in: Cancer Causes & Control | Issue 11/2015

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to examine material hardship among smokers to determine whether such hardship was positively associated with current attempts to quit tobacco use.

Methods

We analyzed cross-sectional data from the Health in Common (HIC) study, an observational study to investigate social and physical determinants of cancer risk-related behaviors among residents of low-income housing in three cities in the Boston metropolitan area. In this study, three indicators of hardship were used: food hardship, financial hardship, and material hardship (food and financial hardship combined). Logistic regression models were used to obtain the odds of currently trying to quit among current smokers in the HIC (n = 170) across hardship types experienced, adjusting for sociodemographic and psychosocial factors.

Results

Fully adjusted models revealed no statistically significant association between trying to quit tobacco use and indicators of material hardship: food hardship and financial hardship present (OR 1.33 (0.42–4.2); food hardship and no financial hardship OR 3.83 (0.97–15.13); and financial hardship but no food hardship OR 0.5 (0.1–2.39).

Conclusions

These findings suggest that even in the presence of material hardship, low-income housing resident tobacco users are not more likely to quit tobacco use; therefore, cessation efforts focused on the financial benefits of quitting may be insufficient to motivate quit attempts among low-income smokers.
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Metadata
Title
Tobacco use among low-income housing residents: does hardship motivate quit attempts?
Authors
R. D. Tucker-Seeley
S. Selk
I. Adams
J. D. Allen
G. Sorensen
Publication date
01-11-2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Cancer Causes & Control / Issue 11/2015
Print ISSN: 0957-5243
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7225
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-015-0662-9

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