Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics

Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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  Pattern of Quitting Methods Used to Promote Tobacco Cessation in Bangladesh and Its Correlates
  Author(s): Papia Sultana*, Jahangir Alam, Jahanara Akter and Tithi Rani Kundu
  
  Background: Promotion of smoking cessation has been proposed as one of the primary areas of focus for tobacco control in developing countries as prevalence is high over there. This paper aimed to analyze statistically quitting method followed by the smokers who wanted to quit tobacco use in the past 12 months of the survey. Methods: The paper was based on secondary data of size 9629 collected from people aged 15 years and above by the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), 2010. Descriptive analysis and binary logistic regression had been performed using STATA-13 to analyze the data. Outcome variable was whether quitting method(s) was (were) followed by the tobacco user (1. Tobacco smoker, and 2. Smokeless tobacco user) who wanted to quit tobacco use in the past 12 months of the survey and independent variables were age, gender, residential sta.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2155-6180.2020.11.437

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