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CSQMEDSYR
Current smoker: Used medication last quitting attempt in year
Group: Quitting Smoking — PERSON

Description

PRELIMINARY VARIABLE: Variable description not yet updated.

For sample adults, CSQMEDSYR indicates whether respondents used a prescription pill, such as Zyban, Buproprion, or Wellbutrin in their last attempt, during the past 12 months, to quit smoking.

Respondents had to satisfy three conditions to receive the question associated with CSQMEDSYR (i.e., "The LAST TIME you stopped smoking, which of these methods did you use?"). First, they had to have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their entire lives (SMOKEV). Second, they had to have an affirmative response to the question of whether they currently smoked cigarettes every day or some days (SMOKFREQNOW). Third, they had to have an affirmative response to the question of whether, during the past 12 months, they had stopped smoking for more than one day because they were trying to quit smoking (CSQTRYYR).

CSQMEDSYR is one of a series of related variables in the "Tobacco" section of the 2005 Cancer Modules. The 2005 Field Representative's Manual explains the rationale for this supplement as follows:

"[T]obacco use is the major risk factor in the development of lung cancer and oral cancer, and contributes to the development of several other cancers and diseases ... [Because of this, answers to questions about cigarette smoking] will be compared with data from 1992 to assess trends in starting and stopping cigarette smoking, and to target quit smoking programs by age, race and sex. The information on behavior and attitudes can be used to assess the effectiveness of current quit smoking campaigns and to help to develop new ones. They will also contribute follow up information to use in evaluating the effectiveness of the 'ASSIST' program, and will be useful in future planning."
Related Variables for "Quitting Smoking"
2005
Besides using "a prescription pill, such as Zyban, Buproprion, or Wellbutrin," there were a number of other methods that current smokers could report in answer to the question, "[T]hinking back to when you tried to QUIT smoking in the PAST 12 MONTHS, did you use any of the following?" For a full list of those methods, see the entries under 2005 in CSQBOOKYR.
2000
Questions about methods used to quit smoking were also asked in 2000, though there were important differences between the 2005 and 2000 questions. For a full list of the 2000 questions and the ways that they differ from the 2005 questions, see the entries under 2000 in CSQBOOKEV.

Comparability

CSQMEDSYR is available only in 2005.

Universe

  • 2005: Sample adults age 18+ who smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their entire lives who are current smokers that tried to quit in the past 12 months.
  • 2010: Sample adults 18+ who are current smokers and tried to quit in the last year.

Codes and Frequencies



Availability

  • 2005, 2010
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