Department of Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
Indian J Cancer. 2021 Jul-Sep;58(3):394-401. doi: 10.4103/ijc.IJC_213_19.
MPOWER is a policy package of six components intended to assist in the country-level implementation of effective tobacco control interventions. One of the six components of MPOWER strategy is to offer help to quit tobacco use. Majority of the smokers want to quit, but quitting is difficult due to the addictiveness of nicotine. They make multiple quitting attempts with little success. There is a need to know what proportion of smokers make a quit attempt, and among those who make an attempt, how many become successful quitters and their sociodemographic correlates.
Secondary analysis of data from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS-2) 2016-17, India was done. This nationally representative survey was conducted among persons aged 15 years or older. Weighted estimates were calculated after adjusting for clustering and stratification.
A total of 35.5% adults who smoked tobacco during the past 12 months have made a quit attempt in the last 12 months. Around 14.2% of ever daily smokers currently do not smoke (which indicate successful quit rate). The study demonstrated strong associations of sociodemographic characteristics such as age group, educational attainment, caste, religion, geographic region, wealth quintiles, and visit to health care provider with the attempt to quit tobacco and successful quitting. The majority of quit attempts were made without any assistance (71.1%).
The study provides robust national evidence on attempts to quit tobacco, the success rates of those attempts, and their sociodemographic correlates. The study highlights the need to provide more cessation support to young, less educated people in the northern part of India.
MPOWER 是一套由六个部分组成的政策包，旨在协助在国家层面实施有效的烟草控制干预措施。MPOWER 战略的六个组成部分之一是提供帮助以戒除烟草使用。大多数吸烟者都想戒烟，但由于尼古丁的成瘾性，戒烟很困难。他们多次尝试戒烟，但收效甚微。有必要了解有多少吸烟者尝试戒烟，以及在那些尝试戒烟的人中，有多少人成功戒烟，以及他们的社会人口统计学相关因素。
对 2016-17 年印度全球成人烟草调查（GATS-2）的数据进行了二次分析。这项具有全国代表性的调查是在 15 岁及以上的人群中进行的。在对聚类和分层进行调整后，计算了加权估计值。
在过去 12 个月内有吸烟习惯的成年人中，有 35.5%在过去 12 个月内尝试过戒烟。大约 14.2%的曾每日吸烟者目前不吸烟（这表明成功戒烟率）。该研究表明，年龄组、教育程度、种姓、宗教、地理位置、财富五分位数和是否去看医疗保健提供者等社会人口统计学特征与戒烟尝试和成功戒烟有很强的关联。大多数戒烟尝试都是在没有任何帮助的情况下进行的（71.1%）。
该研究提供了关于戒烟尝试、这些尝试的成功率以及与社会人口统计学相关因素的有力的全国性证据。该研究强调了需要为印度北部的年轻人和受教育程度较低的人提供更多的戒烟支持。
