Trigger | Gender | Social grade† | Significance (linear) | ||||||
Male | Female | Significance | AB | C1 | C2 | D | E | ||
Advice from a GP/health professional | 4.3 | 7.0 | 0.004** | 4.4 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 0.647 |
TV advert for a nicotine replacement product | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.464 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.1 | 0.199 |
Government TV/radio/press advert | 2.3 | 1.6 | 0.214 | 0.2 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 3.4 | 0.070 |
Hearing about a new stop smoking treatment | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.196 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.131 |
A decision that smoking was too expensive | 12.6 | 11.8 | 0.596 | 10.0 | 9.3 | 13.2 | 16.1 | 13.1 | 0.002** |
Being faced with smoking restrictions | 4.1 | 3.2 | 0.240 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 2.2 | 0.944 |
I knew someone else who was stopping | 4.2 | 5.3 | 0.203 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 0.951 |
Seeing a health warning on a cigarette packet | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.486 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 0.023* |
Being contacted by my local NHS Stop Smoking Services | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.591 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.969 |
Health problems I had at the time | 17.6 | 18.5 | 0.554 | 16.7 | 16.4 | 16.3 | 20.7 | 22.1 | 0.017* |
A concern about future health problems | 30.6 | 26.3 | 0.018* | 38.3 | 30.9 | 27.4 | 22.4 | 21.7 | <0.001*** |
Any health reason‡ | 48.8 | 45.5 | 0.102 | 56.3 | 47.5 | 44.5 | 43.9 | 44.9 | 0.001** |
Pressure from family to stop | 3.0 | 3.3 | 0.650 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 3.7 | 0.717 |
Pregnancy | 1.1 | 5.1 | <0.001*** | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.1 | 0.427 |
Worried for children | 1.4 | 2.7 | 0.025* | 1.5 | 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 0.506 |
Knew someone who was ill or had died (from smoking) | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.345 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 0.008** |
Just decided to quit | 5.4 | 3.6 | 0.035* | 5.3 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 0.141 |
Health reasons, general | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.770 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.990 |
Not stated/don’t know | 8.1 | 10.9 | 0.020* | 8.5 | 9.9 | 10.4 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 0.992 |
*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.
†AB, higher and intermediate managerial/administrative/professional; C1, supervisory, clerical, junior managerial/administrative/professional; C2, skilled manual workers; D, semiskilled and unskilled manual workers; E, on state benefit, unemployed, lowest grade workers.
‡Composite health variable combining the triggers of current and future health concern, and health reasons (unspecified as current or future).