Smoke-Free Policies at Home, Church, and Work: Smoking Levels and Recent Quit Attempts Among a Southeastern Rural Population, 2007

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Berg, Carla J. ; Swan, Deanne W. ; Kegler, Michelle C. ; Fredrick, George ; Daniel, Sandra
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  The objective of this study was to examine the cumulative effect of smoke-free policies and social support for smoking cessation in the home, at church, and at work on smoking levels and quit attempts in the context of a community-based study of rural African Americans and whites in the Southeast.
  
  Methods
  
  We conducted a baseline survey to assess sociodemographics, smoking behavior, level of social support for smoking cessation, and smoke-free policies at home, church, and work. We created a variable for a weighted "dose" of smoking restrictions on the basis of the existence of policies in the 3 settings and a weighted score for social support and used bivariate analyses and multivariate regression to analyze data.
  
  Results
  
  Of 134 survey participants, 18.7% had complete restrictions at home. Among church attendees, 39.4% had complete restrictions at church, and among those employed outside the home, 15.4% had complete restrictions at work. After controlling for age, sex, race, and education, the weighted dose of smoking restrictions was significantly related to having made a quit attempt in the past 12 months (odds ratio, 2.2; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-4.3) but not number of cigarettes smoked per day. Social support for cessation had no effect on recent quit attempts or number of cigarettes smoked per day.
  
  Conclusion
  
  Smoke-free policies have a cumulative effect on smoking behavior. These findings may inform interventions aimed at promoting comprehensive community-wide smoke-free policies.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Female Health Policy Humans Male Middle Aged Policy Making Retrospective Studies Rural Population Smoking Smoking Cessation Social Environment Social Support

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• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 2012; 9.
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  22172194
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3277391
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U48-DP-000043/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia
• Volume:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
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