title: Effects of household, workplace, and public place smoking restrictions on smoking cessation.
abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between environmental smoking restrictions, distinguished by site, and smoking cessation by Chinese urban residents. Recruited through multi-stage quota-sampling, residents in six Chinese cities were surveyed. Data were both individual-level and city-level. Among 4735 respondents, 715 were identified as successful quitters and 405 as unsuccessful. Multilevel logistic regression analysis showed smoking cessation to be associated with city-level public place and workplace restrictions and individual-level workplace and household restrictions. Results offer justification for decision-makers to implement environmental tobacco control policies and related public health interventions aimed at markedly diminishing the high smoking prevalence in China.
authors.affiliation: Center for Tobacco Control Research, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China. ytingzhongyang@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Tingzhong
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xiaochao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Ian R H
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Rockett
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Huan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011633:Public Facilities; D011640:Public Policy; D012907:Smoking / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D017132:Workplace; D055815:Young Adult