Nienke Boderie

A social care programme’s impact on quit-smoking intention in multi-problem households: exploring the scarcity theory 269 8 Health behaviour The majority (56.1%) of the respondents never consumed alcohol and among those who did, most consumed alcohol less than once a month (Table 2). Most respondents never smoked (54.4%), or smoked daily (29.8%). Daily smokers reported an average of 12.5 cigarettes per day, non-daily smokers reported an average of 11 cigarettes per week. One-third of the smokers consumed their first cigarette of the day within 6 to 30 minutes after waking up. Over 50% of smokers reporting it is (very) likely they would quit smoking in the next 6 months (Table 2), 35% tried to quit in the year before the baseline questionnaire and the large majority perceives smoking cessation as (very) hard. Warm meals are consumed almost daily, while breakfast on average is eaten 4 out of 7 days. Fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and breakfast were eaten approximately four times per week, warm meals were consumed almost daily. Intention to change behaviour Little change in intention to decrease alcohol consumption was observed between baseline and follow-up, out of 10 participants one increased while four decreased (Figure 4). Slightly more participants (n=3) reported an increased intention to quit smoking. The intention to increase fruit or vegetable intake was reported by 20 participants, and for both behaviours the intention increased in the majority, respectively 8 and 9 persons increased for fruit and vegetable consumption intention (Figure 4).

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