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Background: Smoking affects human health and healthcare systems worldwide, particularly in Indonesia. We used secondary data from the 2021 Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) to analyze Indonesian smoking cessation determinants. Methods: We analyzed data from 2,877 individuals aged 15 years and older from the 2021 GATS Indonesia, selected through multistage clustering. We used multiple logistic regression analysis adjusted for the complex survey in STATA 17.0 to examine Indonesian smokers' intention to quit including age, sex, education, occupation, household wealth, place of residence, perceptions that smoking causes serious illness, efforts to stop smoking in the past, abstinence days in the past, health-related reason, social reason, environmental reason, and financial reason). Results: Weighted adult intention to quit smoking within 12 months was 17.8%. Factors associated with intention to quit smoking among current smokers in Indonesia included adults age 45 years or older (adjusted odds ratio AOR, 1.69; 95% confidence interval CI, 1.12-2.54), completed higher education (AOR, 1.85; 95% CI, 1.01-3.42), working status (AOR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.55-0.96), perception that smoking causes serious illness (AOR, 2.88; 95% CI, 1.96-4.22), abstinence days in the past >30 days (AOR, 3.10; 95% CI, 2.18-4.41), social reason (AOR, 1.48; 95% CI, 1.05-2.09), and environmental reason (AOR, 1.67; 95% CI, 1.23-2.28). Conclusion: Intention to quit smoking depends on several factors. Smoking cessation guidelines must be widely and often implemented, especially for high-risk smokers. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological smoking cessation strategies require cooperation among healthcare providers, public health actors, and the government.
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