) The diagnosis of a tobacco-related cancer provides a unique opportunity to promote smoking cessation among hospitalized cancer patients and their family members who smoke. Facilitating family-wide smoking cessation following cancer diagnosis is likely to support patient's efforts to quit and to have critical cancer prevention implications for asymptomatic family members who smoke. To date, no published studies have examined the influence of recent cancer diagnosis on family patterns of smoking cessation. The study objectives are (1) to identify patterns and predictors of smoking cessation among spouses and other family members of patients recently diagnosed with tobacco-related cancers and (2) to examine the impact of spouses' and other family members' smoking status on patients' post-diagnosis smoking cessation. Eligible family members will be assessed twice: (a) baseline (T1) will occur shortly after diagnosis and (b) follow-up (T2) will occur 3 months post-diagnosis. Family members will complete self-report questionnaires assessing tobacco use and several variables hypothesized as predictors of smoking cessation (e.g., cancer risk perceptions and emotional distress). Patients' post-diagnosis smoking status will be obtained in conjunction with an ongoing parallel study of continued tobacco use among patients recently diagnosed with tobacco-related cancers.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Small Research Grants (R03)
Project #
1R03CA067125-01A1
Application #
2407789
Study Section
Subcommittee G - Education (NCI)
Project Start
1997-08-15
Project End
1999-07-31
Budget Start
1997-08-15
Budget End
1998-07-31
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
1997
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
Department
Type
DUNS #
064931884
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10065