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Seasonal variations in stage of change among Quitline clients

¹ UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Tobacco Surveillance & Evaluation Research Program, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
² New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, New Jersey, USA

Correspondence to:
Cristine D Delveno
delnevo@umdnj.edu

Keywords: quitlines; seasonality; smoking behaviour

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Telephone counselling is an effective smoking cessation intervention and over the past decade smoking cessation quitlines have rapidly proliferated across North America, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.^1–8 Despite the increase in quitlines, the published data are limited and tend to focus on call volume, demographic breakdown of callers, and/or overall abstinence rates.^1,4–6 Numerous factors, including but not limited to dependence, self efficacy, and stage of change, are predictive of quit attempts and abstinence. Recent research suggests that cigarette smoking behaviours have a strong seasonal component,^9–11 with higher consumption and initiation in summer months and lower consumption and higher cessation in winter months. Possible reasons include—but are not limited to—the effect of weather, New Year resolutions, vacations, and tax increases.^9,10

A better understanding of seasonality and smoking may be important for those planning, promoting, and evaluating smoking cessation services. We explored whether seasonality was related to stage of change among smokers who . . . [Full text of this article]