title: Provider smoking cessation advice among California Asian-American smokers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine proportions of provider advice to quit smoking for Asian-American smokers and to describe factors that may affect the provision of such advice.
  
  
  METHODS
  Secondary data analysis of population-based survey.
  
  
  METHODS
  California.
  
  
  METHODS
  Current smokers from the California Tobacco Use Surveys for Chinese-Americans (n = 2117, participation rate = 52%), Korean-Americans (n = 2545, participation rate = 48%), and Vietnamese-Americans (n = 2179, participation rate = 63.5%).
  
  
  METHODS
  Sociodemographics including insurance status, smoking frequency, provider visit in past year, and provider advice to quit.
  
  
  METHODS
  Multivariate logistic regression models examined dependent outcomes of (1) provider visit in past year and (2) provider advice to quit.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Less than a third (30.5%) of smokers in our study reported both seeing a provider (50.8%) and then receiving advice to quit (60.1%). Factors associated with provider visits included being female, being 45 years or older, having health insurance, and being Vietnamese. Among smokers who saw a provider, factors associated with provider advice to quit included having health insurance and being a daily smoker.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Asian-American smokers reported low proportions of provider advice to quit in the past year, largely because only half of smokers saw a provider. Providers who see such smokers may need greater awareness that several effective cessation treatments do not require health insurance, and that intermittent smokers need advice to quit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA. ektong@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Elisa K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Moon S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: McPhee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002140:California; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003376:Counseling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007723:Korea / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000208:ethnology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology; D055815:Young Adult