According to the study, researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., investigated whether there was an association between parental smoking behavior and children undergoing surgery. The researchers collected data from the 2005 National Health Interview Survey, which included 9,289 responses from parents and their children.
The investigators found that 12.6 of the sampled children resided in a home with at least one parent who smoked indoors. Surgery in the past 12 months in either the child or parent was associated with an increased possibility of an attempt to quit by the parent who smoked.
Quitting attempts were more likely to succeed if the parent, rather than the child, had undergone the surgical procedure.
Read the Doctor’s Lounge report on smoking and surgery.
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