Prevalence and determinants of intention to quit smoking tobacco among adult males in Bangladesh: Findings from a cross-sectional national survey

INTRODUCTIONSmoking is one of the leading preventable risk factors associated with non-communicable disease-related deaths globally and in Bangladesh.Having a goal to quit smoking is a key step towards stopping smoking.However, data are scarce, and a unified national tobacco cessation framework is lacking.This analysis is designed to identify the prevalence and the determinants of intention to quit smoking among male smokers in Bangladesh.METHODS This is a secondary data analysis of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey, a multistage geographically clustered household survey held in Bangladesh in 2017, collecting