Did hardening occur among smokers in England from 2000 to 2010?

Aims To assess trends in the prevalence of ‘hardcore’ smoking in England between 2000 and 2010, and to examine associations between hardcore smoking and socio‐demographic variables. Design Secondary analysis of data from the United Kingdom's General Lifestyle Survey (GLF) and the Health Survey...

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Published in:Addiction (Abingdon, England) England), 2014-01, Vol.109 (1), p.147-154
Main Authors: Docherty, Graeme, McNeill, Ann, Gartner, Coral, Szatkowski, Lisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addiction
Addictive behaviors
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Adults
Associations
Attitude
Biological and medical sciences
Calendars
Cessation
dependence
Drug addiction
England
England - epidemiology
Female
hardcore
hardening
Health
Health surveys
Humans
inequalities
Lifestyle
Logistic Models
Male
Males
Medical sciences
Men
Middle Aged
Motivation
Multivariate Analysis
Population
Prevalence
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Research Report
Risk
Smoking
Smoking - epidemiology
Smoking - psychology
Smoking Cessation - psychology
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic Status
Stress response
Studies
Surveys
Tobacco smoking
Tobacco Use Disorder - epidemiology
Tobacco Use Disorder - psychology
Tobacco, tobacco smoking
Toxicology
United Kingdom
Values
Work Groups
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Summary:Aims To assess trends in the prevalence of ‘hardcore’ smoking in England between 2000 and 2010, and to examine associations between hardcore smoking and socio‐demographic variables. Design Secondary analysis of data from the United Kingdom's General Lifestyle Survey (GLF) and the Health Survey for England (HSE). Setting Households in England. Participants Self‐reported adult current smokers resident in England aged 26 years and over. Measurements Hardcore smokers were defined in three ways: smokers who do not want to quit (D1), those who ‘usually’ smoke their first cigarette of the day within 30 minutes of waking (D2) and a combination of D1 and D2, termed D3. Multivariable logistic regression was used to explore associations between these variables and calendar year, age, sex and socio‐economic status, and P‐values for trends in odds were calculated. Findings The odds of smokers being defined as hardcore according to D3 increased over time in both the GLF (P 
ISSN:0965-2140
1360-0443
DOI:10.1111/add.12359