Socioeconomic patterns of smoking cessation behavior in low and middle-income countries: Emerging evidence from the Global Adult Tobacco Surveys and International Tobacco Control Surveys

• Nigar Nargis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nigar.nargis@cancer.org

  Affiliation American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4501-1398

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• Hua-Hie Yong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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• Pete Driezen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2320-0999

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• Lazarous Mbulo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Luhua Zhao,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation CDC Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Geoffrey T. Fong,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Mary E. Thompson,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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• Ron Borland,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Krishna M. Palipudi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Gary A. Giovino,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

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• James F. Thrasher,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States, Departamento de Investigación sobre Tabaco, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México

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• Mohammad Siahpush

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, Social & Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska, United States of America

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