Study Says Those Who Roll-Their-Own Cigarettes Are Less Likely To Quit Smoking

Smokers who roll their own cigarettes are less doubtless to try quitting smoking, in keeping with a study. Published within the journal BMJ Open, the study found that solely 15.9% of the smokers who chiefly rolled their own cigarettes were extremely driven to quit, compared to 20.3% of these who mainly smoke factory-made cigarettes.

Researchers from the University College London (UCL) within the United Kingdom found that the most important reason for roll-your-own (RYO) smokers’ disinclination to quit appeared as if it would be the comparatively low-cost of RYO merchandise compared with factory-made cigarettes.

While the average daily roll of cigarette consumption by RYO users was broadly similar to that of the factory-made roll of cigarette smokers, they solely spent around half as the maximum amount on smoking hebdomadally. “Cost is systematically according to smokers as of the primary motives for quitting,” same Sarah Jackson from UCL.

“With RYO cigarettes offering a lower cost alternative to factory-made cigarettes, RYO users may be more able to afford to continue to smoke and therefore less inclined to try to quit,” Jackson said.

The analysis was conducted over a period of nine and a half years, from November 2008 to March 2018. Data was provided by over 38,000 English adults who were current smokers or who had quit within the past year. Over half (56.3%) of the smokers surveyed said they solely smoke-cured factory-made cigarette and over a third (36.6%) said they solely smoke-cured RYOs.

“This shift from factory-made to RYO smoking was what prompted us to investigate the phenomenon in more detail,” Jackson said.

“With a growing proportion of the smoking population using RYO, it is important to understand the extent to which RYO smoking influences smokers’ desires to quit,” she said. Researchers found that RYO smokers were less motivated to stop smoking and less likely to make a quit attempt than smokers of factory-made cigarettes.

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