Predicting home smoking restrictions among African American light smokers.
OBJECTIVE
To determine home smoking restrictions (HSR) predictors among African American light smokers (smoke <or= 10 cigarettes per day).


METHODS
Data were obtained from a clinical trial testing the efficacy of nicotine gum and counseling among 755 African American light smokers.


RESULTS
Forty percent reported adopting HSR at week 26. Implementing HSR increased with higher baseline confidence to quit (P <0.0001) and female gender (P = 0.019) and decreased with older age (P = 0.016) and reduced confidence to quit between baseline and week 26 (P <0.0001).


CONCLUSIONS
Confidence to quit, gender, and age are important factors to incorporate into interventions enhancing the adoption of HSR.
Warren
Jennifer R
JR
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA. rw@umn.edu
Okuyemi
Kolawole S
KS
Guo
Hongfei
H
Thomas
Janet L
JL
Ahluwalia
Jasjit S
JS
D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D003376:Counseling; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012907:Smoking / Q000208:ethnology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000208:ethnology / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution