Social inequalities in quitting smoking: what factors mediate the relationship between socioeconomic position and smoking cessation?
Author(s) -
Rosemary Hiscock,
Ken Judge,
Linda Bauld
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdq097
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , smoking cessation , socioeconomic status , medicine , referral , odds ratio , social class , demography , inequality , odds , confidence interval , environmental health , logistic regression , family medicine , population , political science , sociology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , pathology , law
Smokers from lower socio-economic groups are less likely to be successful in a quit attempt than more affluent smokers, even when they access smoking cessation services.
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