Stop Smoking Wales and quit rates
| Author(s)
Vasiliki Kiparoglou, Katie Tulloch and Hugo Van Woerden
| | Presenter(s) |
Vasiliki Kiparoglou Senior Public Health Practitioner, Public Health Wales, Cardiff | Abstract Background Stop Smoking Wales (SSW) is using an intervention approach and its success rates vary across different sub-groups of the population. This study seeks to examine gender and smoking cessation success for clients across Wales.
Methods Data from (n=26,018) contacts in SSW in 2010-11 were used in order to assess the association between gender, attendance and successful quit rates in South East, North, Mid- and West Wales. The main outcome measure was abstinence from smoking 4 weeks after the target quit date.
Results Analyses of the data showed that there was a significant difference between males and females who contacted the service in Wales (p<0.001). Females contributed to 55.8% of clients in total whereas males to 44.2%. There is no significant difference in attendance at the assessment session and conversion to treated smoker between genders. Finally, there was a significant difference in quit rates between males and females with a higher proportion of males quitting when compared to females across Wales (p<0.001).
Conclusions Females are more likely to contact the service when compared to males but males have a higher quit rate. All smokers should be encouraged to use the service of SSW.
| Source of funding: Public Health Wales
| Declaration of interest: None
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