Description
PRELIMINARY VARIABLE: Variable description not yet updated.
For sample adults, FSQMEDSEV indicates whether respondents used Zyban, Buproprion, or Wellbutrin medication to quit smoking completely.
Respondents had to satisfy two conditions to receive the question associated with FSQMEDSEV (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).
FSQMEDSEV 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 "Zyban, Buproprion, or Wellbutrin medication" (FSQMEDSEV), 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.
