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ment conditions in Slovenia (valid for women). Calls where the actual age in
years was not given were included when callers stated to be retired/older.

Content Analysis
The reports, recorded manually on paper in the first months of 2022, and
later in the form of a Microsoft Excel sheet, were transcribed into a uniform
format and combined into one file. Using deductive coding as proposed by
Mayring (2014), we identified two main themes: factors that facilitate smoking
and factors that facilitate non-smoking.

Results
The identified themes were further divided into categories shown in Picture 1.

128 Smoking habits of older adults

zdravje delovno aktivnih in starejših odraslih | health of working-age and older adults

Factors that facilitate smoking Factors that facilitate non-smoking

▪ nicotine addiction
▪ ca eine consumption ▪ poor physiological
▪ boredom ▪ health
▪ disability/limitations ▪ mental health
▪ poor social network ▪ nancial struggles
▪ loneliness ▪ tobacco legislation
▪ poor social network ▪ health system use
▪ poor mental health ▪ social network

Figure 1: Themes and categories.

Quantitative data connected to callers’ tobacco use are summarised in
Table 1.

Table 1: Quitline caller data.

Quitline calls with older smokers N MIN MAX
Number of calls/year 43 (23 male) 0 (March) 7 (Sep - Oct)
Age average (years) 67,1 60 89
Average smoking duration (years) 45,37 1 50
Average use of cigarettes per day 20,09 1,5 40