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Patterns of tobacco use became an integral component of intimate partner relationships

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.9.2.60

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    Bottorff JL, Kalaw C, Johnson J, et al. Unraveling smoking ties: how tobacco use is embedded in couple interactions. Res Nurs Health 2005;28:316–28.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Q Before pregnancy, what are the couple routines that accommodate tobacco use in intimate relationships? How do the dynamics within couples influence tobacco use, and how are these dynamics influenced by tobacco use?

    DESIGN

    A qualitative study using grounded theory.

    SETTING

    A large urban community in western Canada.

    PARTICIPANTS

    28 women (and their partners) who had reduced or stopped smoking during their most recent pregnancy.

    METHODS

    Data were collected using indepth interviews with each partner. Similar questions were presented to both women and their partners and addressed tobacco related interaction patterns (TRIPs). Each couple’s transcripts were reviewed as a set and summarised as a dyad. Emergent themes were developed from these case summaries.

    MAIN FINDINGS

    2 major groups of interactions were discerned. (1) Couple specific tobacco related routines. (a)Regulation of smoking. Over time, couples established routine smoking patterns that fit with their daily activities, individual tolerances for smoking, and need to smoke. For couples who regularly smoked together, smoking not only helped to order couple life but also foster …

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    Footnotes

    • For correspondence: Dr J L Bottorff, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. joan.bottorff{at}ubc.ca

    • Sources of funding: Canadian Institutes of Health Research.