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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Tobacco Control
  • Health Disparities

Background:

  • Tobacco use remains a significant public health concern globally.
  • Effective tobacco cessation interventions are crucial for reducing smoking-related morbidity and mortality.
  • Understanding diverse populations' engagement in cessation support is vital for equitable health outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the phenomenon of non-smokers initiating contact to obtain smoking cessation resources for smokers.
  • To characterize non-smoking individuals who seek help for smokers, analyzing data by language and ethnic groups.
  • To identify demographic and relational factors of non-smoking proxies seeking cessation support.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a large, statewide tobacco quitline dataset (California Smokers' Helpline) from August 1992 to September 2005.
  • Inclusion of 349,110 callers identifying with specific ethnic groups (White, Black, Hispanic, American Indian, Asian).
  • Detailed analysis of 2,143 non-smoking proxies (callers seeking help for others) from October 2004 to September 2005, examining their demographics and relationship to the smoker.

Main Results:

  • Over 22,000 non-smoking proxies contacted the quitline, with significant variations in proportion across language/ethnic groups (e.g., 2.7% for English-speaking American Indians to 35.3% for Asian-speaking Asians).
  • Proxies were predominantly women (79.2%), cohabiting with the smoker (65.0%), and had smoker's consent to call (90.0%).
  • Despite proportional differences, core characteristics of proxies remained consistent across groups.

Conclusions:

  • Non-smokers' proactive engagement in seeking cessation help for smokers is a promising avenue for tobacco control.
  • This approach has the potential to mitigate ethnic and language disparities in cessation service utilization.
  • Targeting non-smoking women within smokers' households may be an effective strategy for initial outreach.