Impact of Canadian tobacco packaging policy on use of a toll-free quit-smoking line: an interrupted time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A policy for new pictorial health warning labels on tobacco packaging was introduced by Health Canada in 2012. The labels included, for the first time, a prominently displayed toll-free number for a quit-smoking line. We used data from the Ontario provincial quitline to investigate the call volume and number of new callers receiving treatment in the months before and after the new policy was introduced.

Methods

We used an interrupted time-series analysis to examine trends in the overall call volume and number of new callers receiving treatment (≥ 1 telephone counselling session) through Ontario's quitline (Smokers' Helpline) between January 2010 and December 2013. We analyzed data using Box-Jenkins autoregressive integrated moving-average models; we adjusted the m

SUBMITTER: Baskerville NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4866924 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature