This article examines the influence of intimate relationships on smoking habits and body weight. We differentiated between couples living apart together, cohabitating couples and married couples. The data basis is the Partnermarktsurvey, a German representative telephone survey of 2,002 people aged between 16 and 55 years. The results show that living in a relationship promotes smoking cessation, however only when the partners live together. This indicates that the positive protection effect of relationships on smoking habits is based on the mechanism of social control and social support, which is linked to the context of a shared household. In addition, we observed the homogamy in smoking habits of partners that arises as early as mate sel...
Married individuals are healthier than single individuals though the reasons are not well understood...
We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with ...
Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank all students who helped with data collection. Funding Thi...
"This article examines the influence of intimate relationships on smoking habits and body weight. Th...
This article examines the influence of intimate relationships on smoking habits and body weight. We ...
Introduction: Despite declines in population tobacco use, smoking remains unacceptably high. Smoking...
Introduction: Despite declines in population tobacco use, smoking remains unacceptably high. Smoking...
Numerous empirical studies have confirmed that married people have a lower risk of morbidity and mor...
textabstractIf two partners smoke, their quit behavior may be related through correlation in unobser...
Item does not contain fulltextBACKGROUND: In this study we ask why spouses resemble each other in sm...
This paper studies spousal peer effects on the smoking behaviour and their implication for\ud the he...
This is a longitudinal study of changes in smoking behaviour as well as becoming overweight/obese (O...
Despite a considerable amount of empirical studies it is still unclear if changes in union status af...
The following study investigates the impact of health on intimate relationships. In a three year lon...
We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the GSOEP to test...
Married individuals are healthier than single individuals though the reasons are not well understood...
We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with ...
Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank all students who helped with data collection. Funding Thi...
"This article examines the influence of intimate relationships on smoking habits and body weight. Th...
This article examines the influence of intimate relationships on smoking habits and body weight. We ...
Introduction: Despite declines in population tobacco use, smoking remains unacceptably high. Smoking...
Introduction: Despite declines in population tobacco use, smoking remains unacceptably high. Smoking...
Numerous empirical studies have confirmed that married people have a lower risk of morbidity and mor...
textabstractIf two partners smoke, their quit behavior may be related through correlation in unobser...
Item does not contain fulltextBACKGROUND: In this study we ask why spouses resemble each other in sm...
This paper studies spousal peer effects on the smoking behaviour and their implication for\ud the he...
This is a longitudinal study of changes in smoking behaviour as well as becoming overweight/obese (O...
Despite a considerable amount of empirical studies it is still unclear if changes in union status af...
The following study investigates the impact of health on intimate relationships. In a three year lon...
We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the GSOEP to test...
Married individuals are healthier than single individuals though the reasons are not well understood...
We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with ...
Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank all students who helped with data collection. Funding Thi...