Income predictors of smoking cessation among Hispanics

Karl Chiang, Belinda Borrelli

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    Abstract

    Higher socioeconomic status smokers are more successful at smoking cessation. Few studies have investigated the prospective association between multiple measures of socioeconomic status and Hispanic smoking cessation. We assessed four measures to examine which predicted smoking cessation. Hispanics without debt had 18.5 times higher odds of 30-day cessation (odds ratio = 18.47, 95% confidence interval = 3.26-104.66, p
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)869-876
    Number of pages7
    JournalJournal of Health Psychology
    Volume19
    Issue number7
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • ethnicity
    • health behavior
    • health psychology
    • Hispanic
    • income
    • Latino
    • smoking cessation
    • socioeconomic status

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