Table 2 The desire to stop smoking and the intention to quit smoking in 5 different European countries for n = 1750 smokers
Variable | Germany | Greece | Poland | Sweden | UK | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% | % | % | % | % | % | |||
Level of tobacco control activity | low | low | medium | high | high | |||
Stage of change | ||||||||
When do you intend to quit | ||||||||
Preparation | during the next 4 weeks | 8.9 | 14.1 | 18.9 | 9.4 | 14.8 | 13.2 | |
Contemplation | during the next 6 months | 13.3 | 9.3 | 18.5 | 24.8 | 18.2 | 16.6 | |
Precontemplation | 77.7 | 76.7 | 62.6 | 65.8 | 67.0 | 70.2 | ||
during the next 12 months | 15.6 | 7.8 | 19.3 | 10.3 | 20.8 | 14.6 | ||
during the next 5 years | 14.5 | 8.2 | 6.6 | 10.3 | 8.9 | 9.7 | ||
sometime in the future | 26.6 | 46.7 | 26.8 | 31.2 | 25.4 | 31.6 | ||
never | 21.1 | 14.1 | 9.9 | 14.1 | 11.9 | 14.3 | ||
Do you want to stop smoking? | ||||||||
yes, definitely | 29.8 | 23.5 | 33.2 | 46.9 | 44.3 | 35.0 | ||
yes, probably | 34.5 | 42.5 | 44.5 | 35.8 | 34.4 | 38.5 | ||
no, rather not | 23.3 | 17.2 | 13.6 | 6.2 | 13.9 | 15.0 | ||
no definitely not | 11.1 | 16.1 | 6.4 | 10.7 | 6.1 | 10.2 |