title: Short-Term Smoking Cessation in English Resident Adults of Bangladeshi Origin: A Service Review.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cigarette smoking in English residents of Bangladeshi origin, particularly men, exceeds national estimates. Cessation outcomes and potential predictors of successful cigarette smoking cessation in this group await identification.
  
  
  METHODS
  This service review reports cessation outcomes and predictors of success for 324 adult English resident Bangladeshi origin smokers recruited into a project providing a specialist tobacco cessation service. Interview measures included sociodemographics, tobacco use and dependence. Cessation data (self-reported and validated) at 4 weeks was also collected. Cessation rate and predictors of successful cessation, modeled using multiple logistic regressions, are reported.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Clients' mean age was 45.59 (SD = 13.83) years. Thirty-three (10%) were females. Mean level of small area deprivation was 56.98 (SD = 5.37). Initial mean expired air carbon monoxide score was 11.66 parts per million (SD = 7.17). Thirty-eight per cent used combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) with behavioral support. Sixty-nine percent reported successful smoking cessation after 4 weeks, validated with carbon monoxide (mean =1.23 parts per million, SD = 1.32). Predictors of successful cessation were use of combined NRT with behavioral support (OR = 1.82, 95% CI = 1.07, 3.09), and community recruitment (OR = 1.85, 95% CI = 1.07, 3.22).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  English adult smokers of Bangladeshi origin resident in a highly disadvantaged locality, accessing community outreach services to help them quit and using NRT have validated short-term success rates greater than that locality's general population who access National Health Service Stop Smoking Services to quit.
authors.affiliation: Queen Mary, University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Institute of Dentistry, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Saba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kassim
authors.affiliation: Queen Mary, University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Institute of Dentistry, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Al-Haboubi
authors.affiliation: Queen Mary, University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Institute of Dentistry, London, United Kingdom r.e.croucher@qmul.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Ray
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Croucher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000208:ethnology; D004739:England / Q000208:ethnology; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000628:therapy*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology*; D013997:Time Factors; D061485:Tobacco Use Cessation Devices / Q000191:economics; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000208:ethnology*