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Willingness of tobacco smokers to contribute financially towards cessation resources

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Willingness of tobacco smokers to contribute financially towards cessation resourcesTo the Editor: Exposure to tobacco smoke accounts for approximately 9% (95% confidence interval 8.1 -10.2) of all South African (SA) deaths.[1] Seventeen percent of SA adults are self-reported active smokers and an alarming 32% of pregnant women were found to be active smokers on urine cotinine testing.[2,3] Despite the publication in 2013 of the South African Tobacco Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline, [4] tobacco smoking cessation programmes in the public health sector remain scarce.We conducted a cross-sectional survey in 2010 of 100 adult smokers at Tygerberg Academic Hospital in Cape Town to determine the rate of nicotine dependence using the Fagerström questionnaire and alcohol co-dependence using the CAGE questionnaire.[5,6] We also assessed willingness to contribute financially to smoking cessation resources.The Human Research Ethics Committee of Stellenbosch University approved the study (N10/05/179).The majority of subjects were identified by smoking behaviour outside entrance number 2, the entrance to Tygerberg Children's

Source: South African Medical Journal

DOI: 10.7196/samj.2016.v106.i12.12106

Authors: K Rao, A L Slogrove, M L Cooke, M F Cotton

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town

Language: English

Topic: Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Subfield: Physiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $311