Predictors of Cessation Outcomes Among Older Adult Smokers Enrolled in a Proactive Tobacco Quitline Intervention
Abstract
Findings provide important considerations for how to tailor cessation programs for older adults. Firstly, promoting quitting self-efficacy and perceived control in cessation and health goals might be particularly important for older adults trying to quit cigarettes, given that this age group is more likely to experience a decline in perceived control over life's circumstances. Secondly, older smokers with higher nicotine dependence might need additional support during cessation programs. Although a subsample of these older adults was highly motivated to quit and re-enrolled for a second dose of treatment, they were not abstinent from cigarettes at the one-year follow-up. Normalizing a long Older Adult Tobacco Cessation history of cigarette use and quit attempts and facilitating discussions about reasons for unsuccessful quit attempts in the past could be important topics for quit line counselors to broach with older adults. Future tobacco quit line studies should assess patterns of ENDS use and the concurrent use of other tobacco products in relationship to quit success in larger gender and racially/ethnically diverse samples of exclusively older adults.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 16, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1163679
Entities
People
- Gerald W. Talcott
- I Mallawaarachchi
- L. A. Robinson
- M A Little
- Margaret C. Fahey
- R C Klesges
Organizations
- 59th Medical Wing