Effect of Global Workplace Smoking Prohibition on Cessation Rates and Cigarette Consumption: A Prospective Study
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Tippens, Robert L.
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
- Abstract
- Assessing the effect campus-wide smoking restriction may have on the aggregate quit rate and cigarette consumption in a population of smoking employees, a prospective cohort study was undertaken at two pharmaceutical company campuses, 1989 through 1995, using questionnaires. The relative success of various cessation programs were also determined using quit rates as outcome measurements. Results were as follows: The overall six year quit rate in this cohort was 28.6% (65/227), and tobacco consumption among active smokers was reduced 21.7% during the study interval. No single formal cessation program was found to be superior, and in fact all of the programs fell short of the results seen in the nonparticipant subgroup. Characteristics associated with improved outcome were higher level of education; less than a pack per day of cigarettes, maximum use; spousal encouragement to quit; and negative answer to question does co-worker smoke. Although the significance of the study is obscured by the dearth of comparable data in existing literature, a global smoking prohibition in the workplace may be an effective adjunct for improving quit rates or for reducing cigarette consumption among smoking employees. Consistent with other studies, we found reductions in cigarette consumption after a smoking control policy, as well as disappointing outcomes associated with structured cessation programs.
- Date of publication
- August 1995
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- Advisor
- Stenberg, Craig
- Rappaport, Stephen Morris
- Dement, John M.
- Degree
- Master of Public Health
- Academic concentration
- Environmental Health Sciences
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 1995
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- 043fb25a-cea5-4ac2-b0d3-5af4a220fe28
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