Correlates of Cessation Success among Romanian Adults

Table 2

Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for successful smoking cessation to selected sociodemographic and other characteristics in men—Global Adult Tobacco Survey Romania 2011.

Variable	Total 𝑁=993	Former smoker 𝑁=336			Current smoker 𝑁=657			Univariable logistic regression		Multivariable logistic regression^a
	𝑁 %	𝑁	%	95% CI	𝑁	%	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Age (years)
<25	65 (6.4)	4	6.2	0.4–12.1	61	93.8	87.9–99.6	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
25–29	68 (6.8)	7	10.3	3.1–17.5	61	89.7	82.5–96.9	1.75	0.49–6.29	1.79	0.45–7.18
30–39	168 (16.9)	28	16.7	11.1–22.3	140	83.3	77.6–88.9	3.05*	1.02–9.08	3.02	0.92–9.95
40–49	205 (20.6)	46	22.4	16.7–28.1	159	77.6	71.9–83.3	4.41**	1.52–12.80	4.34*	1.35–13.89
50–59	208 (20.9)	68	32.7	26.3–39.1	140	67.3	60.9–73.7	7.41***	2.58–21.24	5.30**	1.68–16.78
≥60	279 (28.1)	183	65.6	60.0–71.2	96	34.4	28.8–40.0	29.07***	10.25–82.48	15.60***	4.71–51.67
Age at smoking onset
≤17	415 (41.9)	131	31.6	27.1–36.1	284	68.4	63.9–72.9	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
18–20	397 (40.1)	131	33.0	28.4–37.6	266	67.0	62.4–71.6	1.07	0.79–1.43	1.01	0.67–1.52
≥21	179 (18.1)	73	40.8	33.6–48.0	106	59.2	52.0–66.4	1.49*	1.04–2.15	1.05	0.63–1.76
Education
Primary or less	73 (7.4)	34	46.6	35.2–58.0	39	53.4	42.0–64.8	1.65	0.92–2.95
Secondary	780 (78.8)	253	32.4	29.1–35.7	527	67.6	64.3–70.9	0.91	0.62–1.34
High	136 (13.8)	47	34.6	26.6–42.6	89	65.4	47.4–73.4	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
Occupational classification
Economically not active	347 (35.1)	200	57.6	52.4–62.8	147	42.4	37.2–47.6	10.88***	6.10–19.41	3.66***	1.71–7.86
Employed	507 (51.3)	118	23.3	19.6–27.0	389	76.7	73.0–80.4	2.43**	1.36–4.32	2.59**	1.32–5.09
Unemployed	135 (13.6)	15	11.1	5.8–16.4	120	88.9	83.6–94.2	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
Place of residence
Rural	426 (42.9)	144	33.8	29.3–38.3	282	66.2	61.7–70.7	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
Urban	567 (57.1)	192	33.9	30.0–37.8	375	66.1	62.2–70.0	1.02	0.77–1.31
Asset Index
High	512 (52.2)	177	34.6	30.5–38.7	335	65.4	61.3–69.5	1.44	0.76–2.73
Middle	340 (34.7)	118	34.7	29.6–39.8	222	65.3	60.2–70.4	1.39	0.71–2.70
Low	129 (13.2)	35	27.1	19.4–34.8	94	72.9	65.2–80.6	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
Awareness of smoking health consequences
Yes	940 (95.2)	328	34.9	31.9–37.9	612	65.1	62.1–68.1	4.50**	1.76–11.51	3.14*	1.03–9.62
No	47 (4.8)	5	10.6	1.8–19.4	42	89.4	80.6–98.2	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
Awareness of smoking ETS consequences
Yes	905 (92.7)	314	34.7	31.6–37.8	591	65.3	62.2–68.4	1.83*	1.03–3.24	1.81	0.81–4.01
No	71 (7.3)	16	22.5	12.8–32.2	55	77.5	67.8–87.2	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
Cohabitation with a smoker
Yes	569 (57.4)	58	10.2	7.7–12.7	511	89.8	87.3–92.3	1.00	Reference	1.00	Reference
No	422 (42.6)	276	65.4	60.9–69.9	146	34.6	30.1–39.1	16.66***	11.87–23.37	13.78***

ETS: environmental tobacco smoke.
^aFully adjusted model including all statistically significant variables.
^∗𝑃≤0.05.
^∗∗𝑃≤0.01.
^∗∗∗𝑃≤0.001.