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Cigarette Smoking Status and Smoking Cessation Counseling of Chinese Physicians in Wuhan, Hubei Province
Han Zao Li*,
Weixing Sun,
Fangmei Cheng,
Xiangrong Wang,
Weiping Liu,
and
Aisheng Wang
The Third Hospital
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lih{at}unbc.ca.
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Among the 347 physicians surveyed, 58% of the male physicians and 18.8% of the female physicians were current cigarette smokers; 54.4% of the male and 70.4% of the female physicians often or always provided smoking cessation counseling for patients; 37.5% of the physicians thought that for a Chinese smoker, cigarette smoking served as a social lubricant; 31.5% thought it a habit; 21.7% thought it a stress reliever; and 9.2% thought it a social status symbol. The following 5 variables were significantly associated with physicians’ smoking cessation counseling frequency: their smoking status, perceived success in their past counseling, perceived influence, perceived exemplary role, and perceived responsibility. To increase physicians’ smoking cessation counseling, the Chinese Ministry of Health would need to discourage physicians to smoke and appeal to their sense of responsibility to help patients quit smoking.
First published on May 13, 2008, doi:10.1177/1010539508317821
Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health 2008;20:183.
A more recent version of this article appeared on July 1, 2008
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