Trends in motives for trying to stop smoking: a population study in England, 2018-2023.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Since 2020, people in England have lived through a global pandemic and national cost-of-living and healthcare crises, each of which might have affected motivations to stop smoking.

Objective

To examine changes in the factors motivating people to stop smoking over this period.

Methods

Data were drawn from a nationally representative monthly cross-sectional survey in England, 2018-2023. Participants were 5777 past-year smokers who made one or more serious attempt to quit in the past year. Participants reported factors contributing to their most recent attempt to quit. We estimated time trends in the proportion of attempts to quit that were motivated by (i) health concerns, (ii) cost, (iii) social factors and (iv) health professional advice, and calculated p

SUBMITTER: Jackson SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812782 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature