Description
PRELIMINARY VARIABLE: Variable description not yet updated.
For sample adults, FSQGUMEV indicates whether respondents used nicotine gum to quit smoking completely.
Respondents had to satisfy two conditions to receive the question associated with FSQGUMEV (i.e., "When you stopped smoking completely, 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 a negative response to the question of whether they currently smoked cigarettes every day or some days (SMOKFREQNOW).
FSQGUMEV is one of a series of related variables in the "Tobacco" section of the 2000 Cancer Module. The 2000 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"2000
Besides using "nicotine gum" (FSQGUMEV), there were a number of other methods that former smokers could report in answer to the question "When you stopped smoking completely, which of these methods did you use?" For a full list of those methods, see the entries under 2000 in FSQBOOKEV.
2005
Questions about methods used to quit smoking completely were also asked in 2005, though there were important differences between the 2000 and 2005 questions. For a full list of the 2005 questions and the ways that they differ from the 2000 questions, see the entries under 2005 in FSQBOOK2YR.
Universe
- 1992: Half of sample persons age 18+ in quarters 1 and 2, and in 2 weeks of quarter 3 (excluded from CAEP supplement) who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes and whose reason for quitting was not ONLY because of sickness, and who either do not currently smoke or smoke some days but haven't smoked in the past 30 days
- 2000: Sample adults age 18+ who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes and do not currently smoke.
Codes and Frequencies
Availability
- 1992, 2000
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Weights
- 1992, 2000 : SAMPWEIGHT
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