Smoking Cessation and Tobacco-related Risk Perceptions among People with and without a Diagnosis of Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about how cancer diagnosis and tobacco-related risk perceptions are associated with smoking behavior.

Methods

We used data from Waves (W) 1-3 (2013-2016) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study to analyze longitudinal smoking behavior among adults who were current smokers and not previously diagnosed with cancer at baseline (W1; N = 7,829). The outcome was smoking cessation as of follow-up (W3). Explanatory variables were sociodemographics, other tobacco product use, adult at first cigarette, tobacco dependence, cancer diagnosis after baseline, and tobacco-related risk perceptions [cigarette harm perception, worry that tobacco products will damage one's health ("worry"), belief that smoking causes cancer ("belief"), and nondaily sm

SUBMITTER: Land SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905258 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature