Open AccessSmoking cessation and gender differences – results from a Swedish sample
Author(s) -
Tove Sohlberg
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nordisk alkohol- and narkotikatidskrift
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.431
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1458-6126
pISSN - 1455-0725
DOI - 10.1515/nsad-2015-0025
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , nicotine replacement therapy , medicine , population , demography , quit smoking , snus , environmental health , psychology , tobacco use , pathology , sociology , smokeless tobacco
AIM – Previous research has concluded that prevalence of smoking, reasons to quit and strategies to become smoke-free vary markedly by gender. Yet we lack a more comprehensive understanding of the process leading to a quit attempt and a positive long-term outcome, and of the gender-specific mechanisms behind successful cessation. My aim is therefore to investigate reasons of smoking and motives, mechanisms and factors of smoking cessation, with special regard to gender differences