Open AccessPerceived cancer-related benefits of quitting smoking and associations with quit intentions among recently diagnosed cancer patients
Author(s) -
Daniel L. Hall,
Jordan M. Neil,
Jamie S. Ostroff,
Saif Hawari,
Conall O’Cleirigh,
Elyse R. Park
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of health psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1461-7277
pISSN - 1359-1053
DOI - 10.1177/1359105319845131
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , medicine , cancer , multilevel model , randomized controlled trial , clinical psychology , pathology , machine learning , computer science
One third of smokers diagnosed with cancer continue smoking, perhaps due to low perceived cancer-related benefits of cessation. To examine perceived cancer-related benefits of quitting among newly diagnosed cancer patients who smoke and associations with quit intentions, baseline measures from patients (N = 303) enrolled in a randomized controlled trial were analyzed using hierarchical regression models and bootstrapping. Higher perceived cancer-related benefits of quitting were associated with having a smoking-related cancer and less education. Perceived cancer-related benefits of quitting and quit intentions were positively correlated, particularly among patients with smoking-related cancers. For smokers with smoking-related cancers, perceived cancer-related benefits of quitting are correlated with quit intentions.