Background
Methods
Survey instruments
Tobacco use and quitting behaviours
Methods used for smoking cessation
Financial functioning
Relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage
Data analysis
Results
Demographic information
Number (%) or median (IQR) | |
---|---|
Age, median (IQR) years | 46 (35–56) |
Sex, female | 557 (53.2%) |
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander | 70 (6.7%) |
Marital status | |
Married/partnered/de-facto | 319 (30.5%) |
Single/never married | 359 (34.3%) |
Separated/divorced/widowed | 366 (35.0%) |
Current living arrangements | |
Single-person household | 442 (42.2%) |
Two or more persons | 604 (57.7%) |
Including one or more child | 375 (35.8%) |
Government pensions or allowancea
| |
Age pension | 95 (9.2%) |
Newstart Allowance | 288 (27.5%) |
Disability Support Pension | 352 (33.6%) |
Parenting Payment | 128 (12.2%) |
Family tax benefit A or B | 198 (18.9%) |
Other | 201 (19.2%) |
Education | |
Commenced/completed primary school | 9 (0.9%) |
Commenced/completed secondary school | 650 (62.9%) |
Technical or further education | 281 (26.8%) |
Some University at least | 100 (9.6%) |
Employmentb
| |
Employed fulltime/part-time/casual | 160 (15.3%) |
Unemployed/home duties/retired | 628 (60.0%) |
Unable to work | 328 (31.3%) |
Student | 74 (7.1%) |
Diagnosed or treated in past 12 months | |
Depression | 478 (45.7%) |
Anxiety | 364 (34.8%) |
Schizophrenia/psychosis | 103 (9.8%) |
Bipolar disorder | 91 (8.7%) |
Personality disorder | 53 (5.1%) |
PTSD | 33 (3.2%) |
Other | 93 (8.9%) |
DASS-21c
| |
Depression, median (IQR) | 14 (6–26) |
Anxiety, median (IQR) | 12 (4–22) |
Stress, median (IQR) | 18 (10–28) |
Tobacco use
Number (%) or median (IQR) | |
---|---|
Tobacco use (N = 1047) | |
Cigarettes per day | 23 (15–30) |
Heaviness of Smoking Index | 4 (3–5) |
Type of tobacco smoked | |
Mainly/only factory made | 634 (60.6%) |
Factory made and RYOa equally | 96 (9.2%) |
Mainly/only RYO | 314 (30.0%) |
Frequency of strong urges | |
Never | 18 (1.7%) |
Daily or less | 74 (7.1%) |
Several times daily | 320 (30.6%) |
Hourly or more | 630 (60.2%) |
Ever attempted to quit, yes | 970 (92.6%) |
Days since last quit attemptb
| 365 (122–1096) |
Length of last quit attempt, daysc
| 7 (3–21) |
Confidence in success of next quit attempt | |
Not sure of success | 75 (7.2%) |
Slightly sure | 100 (9.6%) |
Moderately sure | 342 (32.7%) |
Very sure | 325 (31.0%) |
Extremely sure | 176 (16.8%) |
Current motivation to quit | 8 (7–10) |
Methods used for past quit attempts (N = 970)
| |
Ever used Nicotine Replacement Therapy, yes | 684 (70.5%) |
NRT Type used on last quit attemptd,e
| |
Gum | 161 (23.5%) |
Patch | 523 (76.5%) |
Lozenge | 81 (11.8%) |
Inhaler | 73 (10.7%) |
Sublingual tablets/ Mouth spray/mist/e-cigarette | 53 (7.7%) |
Ever used prescription medications, yes | 478 (49.3%) |
Prescription medications usede,f
| |
Burpropion | 143 (29.9%) |
Varenicline | 415 (86.8%) |
Other | 5 (1.1%) |
Ever called a Quitline, yes | 368 (37.6%) |
Methods used to quit smoking
Financial functioning
Number (%) or median (IQR) | |
---|---|
Weekly household income | |
< $190 | 30 (2.9%) |
$190–$379 | 341 (32.6%) |
$380–$579 | 287 (27.4%) |
$580–$769 | 146 (13.9%) |
> $770 | 243 (23.2%) |
Ever sought professional help managing finances, yes | 257 (24.6%) |
Past 12 months | 112 (10.7%) |
Financial stress in past month (0≤FSIa≤7) | 2 (0–4) |
Any financial stress in past month (FSIa >0) | 764 (73.0%) |
FSI items endorsed for past month | |
Difficulty paying electricity/gas/telephone bills | 424 (40.5%) |
Difficulty paying mortgage or rent on time | 168 (16.1%) |
Pawned or sold something | 291 (27.8%) |
Went without meals | 307 (29.3%) |
Unable to heat the home | 146 (13.9%) |
Asked for financial help from friends or family | 550 (52.5%) |
Asked for help from welfare or community group | 350 (33.4%) |
Financial deprivationb, no | |
Have holiday away for at least 1 week per year | 566 (54.1%) |
Have night out once a fortnight | 407 (38.9%) |
Host a meal once a month | 145 (13.8%) |
Have special meal once a week | 242 (23.1%) |
Buy new clothes most of the time | 320 (30.6%) |
Spend time on leisure or hobbies | 290 (27.7%) |
Weekly tobacco expenditure | $80 ($50–$120) |
Smoking induced deprivation past month, yes | 452 (43.2%) |
Make ‘important’ sacrifices to buy tobacco | |
Strongly disagree | 22 (2.1%) |
Disagree | 171 (16.5%) |
Neutral | 51 (4.9%) |
Agree | 546 (52.1%) |
Strongly agree | 245 (23.6%) |
Financial Stress Scale | Deprivation | ||||
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IRR (95% CI) |
p-value | IRR (95% CI) |
p-value | ||
Motivation to Quit | Unadjusteda
| 1.04 (1.01, 1.06) |
p = 0.003 | 1.04 (1.01, 1.06) |
p = 0.004 |
Adjustedb
| 1.03 (1.01, 1.06) |
p = 0.005 | 1.03 (1.00, 1.05) |
p = 0.030 | |
Certainty of Quit Success | Unadjusteda
| 1.02 (0.99, 1.06) |
p = 0.220 | 1.03 (0.99, 1.08) |
p = 0.101 |
Adjustedb
| 1.04 (1.00, 1.08) |
p = 0.061 | 1.04 (1.00, 1.09) |
p = 0.041 |
Median (IQR) | Kruskal-Wallis H by type of cigarette smoked | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Household | All smokers | Only smoke factory-made | Only smoke RYO | Smoke both | χ2(2) |
p-value |
All | 13.8(8.3, 21.1) | 17.3(10.4, 25.9) | 9.8(6.5, 15.8) | 12.1(6.9, 20.7) | 67.27 |
p < 0.001 |
Single smoker | 15.5(9.0, 23.7) | 17.3(11.9, 26.4) | 11.2(6.7, 15.8) | 12.1(6.6, 21.1) | 52.58 |
p < 0.001 |
Single adult | 17.2(10.6, 26.4) | 20.7(13.7, 26.4) | 12.7(7.9, 17.2) | 13.7(8.6, 26.4) | 44.01 |
p < 0.001 |