The intention of quitting smoking and its influencing factors:a survey of 734 smokers in Guangzhou City / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

The intention of quitting smoking and its influencing factors were surveyed with questionnaire developed by Chinese Center for Disease Control in 734 smokers in Guangzhou City.The results showed that 57.6%of the interviewed smokers intended to quit smoking.Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that 5 factors were significantly associated with the quitting intentionthe attitude against smoking of family,educational background,the cost of cigarettes,addiction to smoking,awareness of the harm of smoking to health.