Age Interacts with Heaviness of Smoking in Predicting Success in Cessation of Smoking
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 135 (3) , 240-246
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116277
Abstract
There is conflicting evidence regarding the relation between heaviness of smoking and the likelihood of quitting smoking. We investigated this issue using the data set of the 1986 Adult Use of Tobacco Survey, a telephone survey of the smoking behavior of noninstitutionalized, civilian, US adults aged >16 years. Analyses were based on a subsample of 4,383 individuals who had made a serious attempt to stop smoking 1–10 years before the survey. Among younger smokers, the lighter smokers (Am J Epidemiol 1992;135:240–6.Keywords
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