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The Russian tobacco control policy aims at decreasing the prevalence of smokers by means of preventing taking up smoking and motivating smokers to quit. We aimed to analyse the quitting intentions of smokers under the Russian tobacco control law. Methods: Cross-sectional data from Russian Tobacco Control Law Evaluation Survey (2017-2018) are analysed, based on multistage random national representative sample of 11625 adult respondents, stratified by smoking status: 6569 smokers, 2377 former smokers, 2679 never smokers, in 10 Russian Federal subjects, interviewed with questionnaire comparable with the one of ITC Project. Data are compared with the results of ‘EURESTPLUS ITC Europe Surveys’ (https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/98912) Results: Significant majority of smokers (56.6%) had signs of high tobacco dependence and 81.4% of smokers considered themselves dependent on tobacco. 50,9% of the smokers were convinced that quitting smoking is difficult or very difficult, only 14.0% had clear intentions to quit, 51.9% - were somewhat willing and 34.1% - had no willingness to quit. Accordingly, only 7.3% were planning to quit within one month, 13.9%-within 6 months, which was lower than in England, the same/lower than in the Netherlands, but higher than in other 6 countries. 32.4% of smokers had planned to quit sometime beyond six months, and 46.4% - had no quitting plans at all. Similarly, this was higher than in England and the Netherlands, the same as in Romania, and lower than in the rest of the countries. Conclusions: General intention to quit among smokers in Russia is still low, though comparable with other European countries. Data should be used to better shape RTCP interventions. |
