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KMID : 1170320080140020119
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Korean Journal of Health Economics and Policy
2008 Volume.14 No. 2 p.119 ~ p.141
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Self-Control Problems and Quitting Smoking
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Choi Jeong-Eun
You So-Ye
Hong Seong-Hoon
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Abstract
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This paper identifies self-control problems in smoking through the relationship between smoking related variables and quit success and future quit intentions and derives the implications of self-control problems on quitting decisions by using 2005 national health and nutrition survey data. Estimation results for the quit success model and the quit intention model show that smokers who use self-will as a quitting method are more likely to succeed in quitting smoking and to intend to quit smoking in near future than those who use quitting aides. Smokers who consider current health and economic problems due to smoking are more likely to quit smoking within 6 months than those who consider potential health effects. However, smokers who attempt to quit smoking due to external pressures are the most likely to succeed in quitting smoking. These results imply that increasing smoking regulations and promoting external pressures which help smokers with self-control problems are important in improving quit success.
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KEYWORD
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self-control problems, smoking, quitting smoking, ordered probit model
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