Objective@#To investigate
smoking cessation behaviors and factors influencing it among
adult community smokers in
Beijing.@*
Methods@#This was a cross-sectional
epidemiological study. A
questionnaire survey was administered among
community smokers over 18 years old, in which information on basic demographics,
tobacco use, attempts to quit
smoking, tobacco-related
awareness, and environmental assessment of
smoking cessation support were collected. Descriptive
analysis was conducted on the basic information,
smoking situation, and demand for
smoking cessation intervention of the
respondents. Two tests were used to examine the quitting attempts of
respondents. Tobacco attempts was found to be correlated with socio-
demographic indicators, and factors such as
tobacco use,
awareness of tobacco-related issues, and the
smoking cessation support
environment. Dual
logistic regression was used to further explore the dependence of identified factors and attempted
smoking cessation behavior.@*Results@#A total of 449
respondents were enrolled in this study, 410 of them were
men (91.3%). Among the
respondents, 272 people (60.6%) had tried to quit
smoking and 177 people (39.4%) did not try to quit
smoking. Monthly
income level, tobacco-related
awareness, degree of surrounding people supporting
smoking cessation, whether medical
treatment was sought in the previous year, number of visits, whether to persuade
medical staff to quit
smoking in the past year, and whether
smoking was given up in the past year were the identified factors. These seven factors, such as whether they have been asked about
smoking, are the influencing factors in trying to quit
smoking(P<0.05). Under the
logistic regression model, monthly
income level (OR=1.271, 95%CI1.081-1.493), the support of people around them to quit
smoking (OR=1.251, 95%CI1.035-1.512), and the
suggestion of medical
personnel in the past year (OR=2.382, 95%CI 1.054-5.381) were found to encourage attempts to quit
smoking.@*Conclusion@#Factors such as
health status, environmental support,
hazard perception, and economic level influence attempts to quit
smoking. Lack of
self-
determination and other people's influence are the main reasons for failing to quit
smoking. Taking
community places as the basic unit of intervention combined with professional guidance of
smoking cessation clinic doctors and forming an online comprehensive linkage
smoking cessation hospital community intervention model is an innovative way to optimize the management of
tobacco dependence.