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| Qualitative Analysis | non-numeric analysis of qualitative data (e.g., units of text) gleaned through techniques such as interviews, case studies, focus groups (cf. Quantitative Analysis) |
| Quantitative Analysis | the use of statistical techniques to understand quantitative data (e.g., raw numbers, percentages) and to identify relationships between and among variables (see also Meta-analysis; cf. Qualitative Analysis) |
| Quit Attempt | deliberate and intentional effort to stop smoking permanently, which is successful for at least 24 hours in a daily smoker and longer than 24 hours in a non-daily smoker, the required period depending on normal frequency of smoking |
| Quit Attempt Rate | (1) percentage of daily smokers who intend to stop smoking permanently and deliberately refrain from smoking for at least 24 hours; (2) percentage of non-daily smokers who intend to stop smoking permanently and deliberately refrain from smoking for longer than 24 hours, the required period depending on normal frequency of smoking (e.g., a person who smokes once a week and intends to quit smoking must refrain from smoking for at least a week before his or her quit attempt becomes part of the numerator) |
| Quit Intention | synonym for Intention to Quit |
| Quit Rate | the number of persons who meet a prescribed definition of quitting smoking at a given point in time divided by the total number of persons eligible for inclusion in the calculation |
| Quit Smoking Contest | program designed to encourage cessation and abstinence, offering incentives and prizes to various groups, e.g., validated quitters, those who make a quit attempt, persons who support someone else’s quit attempt and never smokers who do not start smoking, and which may also award prizes on the basis of a random draw (see also Driven to Quit) |
| Quit Success | (1) potentially misleading but convenient term to describe an effort to quit smoking that is successful for a prescribed period of time, e.g., 30 days, 6 months, 12 months, depending on the purpose of the assessment; (2) the point at which a person is deemed to have a relatively low probability of relapse |
| Quit Success Rate | synonym for Quit Rate |
| Quitline/Quit Line | a type of cessation service reached by telephone that typically offers a number of options to persons who are thinking of quitting smoking, e.g., order fill (information, materials, referral, pharmacotherapy), reactive counseling and assessment which are client-initiated, and proactive counseling involving scheduled telephone calls from the service provider to the client http://www.smokershelpline.ca |
| Quitter | imprecise non-technical term for a smoker who is engaged in a quit attempt |
| Quotient | the result of dividing one number by another |
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The OTRU Glossary of Tobacco Control provides brief definitions of over 1,000 tobacco control terms, abbreviations and acronyms. Definitions are based on many sources including dictionaries, legislative texts, websites, reports, books, peer-reviewed journal articles and communications from tobacco control experts. A single definition often reflects material from more than one source.
While we have tried to be comprehensive in producing this resource, the language of tobacco control is constantly evolving and there may be relevant terms that are not listed or terms whose meanings may have changed.
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