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Successful smoking cessation: Does quitting for good mean sacrificing LGBTQ identity?
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This study is guided by the Social Ecological Model, components of Social Cognitive Theory, and the Transtheoretical Model. Researchers employed a sequential exploratory design involving in-depth interviews with nine LGBTQ individuals in Georgia who had successfully quit smoking (and stayed quit). Researchers then created a survey informed by qualitative interview findings, disseminated the survey online and with the help of LGBTQ community centers nationwide, and performed descriptive analyses of 67 survey responses. Interview and survey findings reveal that LGBTQ identity is not heavily tied to quitting, nor does it seem to influence the quitting process. In the end, the challenges present when quitting smoking seem to be unique to quitting smoking — not to LGBTQ identity or fear of losing LGBTQ identity. This finding, along with results about successful quitting methods, has major implications for how smoking cessation is approached within the LGBTQ community.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsAdvocacy for health and health education
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related research
Learning Objectives:
Explain that LGBTQ identity is a significant risk factor smoking uptake.
Discuss implications to smoking cessation tactics now that it is known LGBTQ identity is not strongly tied to the quitting process.
Identify cigarette smoking prevention in the LGBTQ community as extremely important.
Keyword(s): Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), Tobacco Use
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to be an abstract author on the content I am responsible for because I was the main researcher for this particular study and my personal research area of focus is LGBTQ health disparities and positive behavior change.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.