Gender and smoking behavior in a worksite smoking cessation program.
Gender-specific patterns in smoking behavior among 844 men and women who participated in a worksite smoking cessation program were explored. Although gender did not predict outcome, men and women did differ on a number of smoking behaviors and smoking history variables. Male participants smoked cigarettes with a higher nicotine content and smoked a greater number of cigarettes per day. Females reported having made more previous attempts to quit, less confidence about quitting, greater effort to quit, greater worry about smoking-related illness, and that they would be less likely to quit on their own if this program were not offered. Females did tend to report receiving higher levels of general social support, as well as partner support for quitting smoking; however, greater support did not lead to higher quit rates. At the 2-year assessment, 14.3% of female participants (n = 532) reported abstinence, while 13.5% of male participants (n = 312) reported abstinence, when missing data were recoded as smoking.
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DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011897:Random Allocation; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace