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The Association of Spousal Smoking Status With the Ability to Quit Smoking: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Epidemiology, April 2014
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Title
The Association of Spousal Smoking Status With the Ability to Quit Smoking: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Published in
American Journal of Epidemiology, April 2014
DOI 10.1093/aje/kwu041
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L. K. Cobb, M. A. McAdams-DeMarco, R. R. Huxley, M. Woodward, S. Koton, J. Coresh, C. A. M. Anderson

Abstract

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Studies have shown that smoking status tends to be concordant within spouse pairs. This study aimed to estimate the association of spousal smoking status with quitting smoking in US adults. We analyzed data from 4,500 spouse pairs aged 45-64 years from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study cohort, sampled from 1986 to 1989 from 4 US communities and followed up every 3 years for a total of 9 years. Logistic regression with generalized estimating equations was used to calculate the odds ratio of quitting smoking given that one's spouse is a former smoker or a current smoker compared to a never smoker. Among men and women, being married to a current smoker decreased the odds of quitting smoking (for men, odds ratio (OR) = 0.37, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.29, 0.46; for women, OR = 0.54, 95% CI: 0.43, 0.68). Among women only, being married to a former smoker increased the odds of quitting smoking (OR = 1.26, 95% CI: 1.04, 1.53). In conclusion, spouses of current smokers are less likely to quit, whereas women married to former smokers are more likely to quit. Smoking cessation programs and clinical advice should consider targeting couples rather than individuals.

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Unknown 38 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 13%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Researcher 4 11%
Other 8 21%
Unknown 6 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 24%
Psychology 4 11%
Social Sciences 4 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 5%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 11 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2014.
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#12,838,979
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#7,500
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#104,664
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Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Epidemiology
#41
of 66 outputs
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