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Disparities in Smoking Cessation Between African Americans and Whites: 1990–2000

Gary King, PhD, Anthony Polednak, PhD, Robert B. Bendel, PhD, My C. Vilsaint, BA and Sunny B. Nahata, MS

Gary King and Sunny B. Nahata are with the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. My C. Vilsaint is with the University of Buffalo Medical School, Buffalo, NY. Anthony Polednak is with the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Conn. Robert B. Bendel is with the School of Nursing at Washington State University, Pullman, Wash.





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  		FIGURE 1—— Conventional and successful quit ratios, 1990–2000, by (a) RCSG, (b) RCSG and gender, and (c) RCSG and age.

Note. RCSG = racially classified social group; CQR = conventional quit ratio; SQR = successful quit ratio.

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Percentage of successful quitters who quit within the past 10 years, 1990–2000, by racially classified social group and gender.

 



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  		FIGURE 3—— Odds ratios for being a former vs current smoker, 1990–2000, among (a) Whites vs African Americans (adjusted and unadjusted) and (b) Whites vs African Americans (adjusted) for women vs men separately.

Note. Adjusted for covariates, age, gender, education, marital status, and geographic region.

 


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  		FIGURE 4—— Adjusted and unadjusted odds ratios among African American vs White former smokers for having successfully quit ≤ 10 years ago vs > 10 years ago, 1990–2000.

 




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