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This digital document is a journal article from Addictive Behaviors, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The purpose of this study is twofold: 1) to evaluate the effects of a smoking cessation clinic (Project EX) on changing motivation to quit smoking, and 2) to assess differences in quit rates based on these changes in motivation. Student smokers in 18 continuation high schools in the Los Angeles county area were invited to participate in a tobacco cessation clinic designed to enhance motivation to quit tobacco use. The 18 schools were randomly assigned to one of three conditions. Compared to students in the control group, students who participated in the program conditions were more likely to express higher motivation to quit tobacco use. Higher motivation was also significantly related to higher quit rates. Motivation to quit as defined by constituents of the energy/direction model of motivation appears to be a plausible mediator of cessation program effects.

Motivation to quit as a mediator of tobacco cessation among at-risk youth

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This digital document is a journal article from Addictive Behaviors, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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There is a lack of effective smoking cessation programmes for young people, despite the urgent need for them. The present study reports the initial results of a real-world self-help cessation programme which also contained a ”quit and win”-contest component designed for adolescents and young adults. Consecutive registrants (N=1265) were surveyed 11 to 23 months after they registered to the programme to assess continuous abstinence. Results must be interpreted cautiously because this is an uncontrolled study with a 20.7% response rate (N=262). The programme was assessed positively by the participants. Results showed an 8.5% intention-to-treat quit rate with an average duration of 51.30 weeks continuous abstinence. Predictors for successful smoking were occasional smoking (not daily smoking) and older age.

Initial evaluation of a real-world self-help smoking cessation programme for adolescents and young adults

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This digital document is a journal article from Addictive Behaviors, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has added to the menu of options available to assist cigarette smokers in quit attempts, but cost remains a barrier to access. A quasi-experimental study was carried out to compare quit rates and continuous abstinence from smoking before (n=601) and after (n=311) free nicotine patches were offered to smokers who participated in the Washington County (Maryland) Health Department’s ”Stop Smoking for Life” group behavioral cessation program. After free NRT was offered, the quit rates upon completion of the program increased from 38% to 65% [difference 27%; 95% confidence limits (CL) 21%, 34%]. The difference in continuos abstinence from smoking between the two groups was no longer statistically significant after 6 months of follow-up, reflecting the more rapid rate of reversion to smoking that occurred during the 18-month follow-up period among the free NRT group who had quit [adjusted rate ratio (RR) 1.35; 95% CL 1.03, 1.78]. Enrollment during the first 18 months after free NRT was 37% greater than the program’s first 18 months (P=.08). In conclusion, adding free nicotine patches to a smoking cessation program was associated with increased program enrollment and significantly increased short-term-but not long-term-quit rates. The rapid reversion to smoking in the group who received free nicotine patches could potentially be obviated if participants extend their use of nicotine patches after the free 6-week supply is exhausted.

The influence of offering free transdermal nicotine patches on quit rates in a local health department’s smoking cessation program

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This digital document is a journal article from Addictive Behaviors, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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To investigate the possible impact of treatment of alcohol dependence on smoking, we studied 144 smokers in an alcohol treatment center for whom 6-month data were available. Of those, 18 reported not smoking at 6 months. No significant differences in age, gender, or race were observed between quitters and continuing smokers. Quitters at 6 months were significantly more likely to be low dependent smokers than were continuing smokers and were significantly more likely to report no drinking during the past 28 days at the end of 1 month’s treatment (93%) than continuing smokers (62%). These findings suggest that quitting smoking may be associated with low levels of nicotine dependence and favorable alcohol treatment response in alcoholic smokers.

Unaided smoking cessation among smokers in treatment for alcohol dependence

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Cigarette smoking is a clear problem among methadone-maintained persons, yet little is known about factors that may be associated with their motivation to quit smoking. A sample of 255 smokers, enrolled in a smoking cessation research protocol, completed measures of their smoking motivation, smoking habit, quitting history, and intent to quit in the future. Both zero-order correlational and multivariate linear regression analyses indicated that only number of cigarettes smoked per day and expectancies for success with smoking cessation were associated significantly with motivation to quit smoking. These results have implications for understanding motivational processes among methadone-maintained smokers and may help in the design of interventions that will assist this population with quitting smoking.

Correlates of motivation to quit smoking in methadone-maintained smokers enrolled in a smoking cessation trial

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The majority of smokers who eventually quit do so without formal treatment, but few studies have examined a range of predictors of cessation among self-quitters and whether they differ depending on smokers’ gender. The present study examined predictors of quitting in a community sample of 93 men and 117 women smokers attempting to quit on their own. Smokers were mailed a baseline questionnaire battery, and instructed to complete other measures the first and second day of their quit attempt. No gender difference in quit rates was observed, but predictors of smoking differed between men and women. Among men, alcohol use, caffeine consumption, and negative affect predicted smoking on quit day. Among women, nicotine dependence, age, ethnicity, weight control smoking, and not eating during urges predicted smoking on quit day. Social support seeking was negatively associated with smoking on the quit day among women, but the opposite relationship was obtained for men. Men’s smoking 4 months later was predicted by baseline social pressures to quit and use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). For women, weight control smoking and trait anxiety predicted smoking at the 4-month follow-up.

Unaided smoking cessation and predictors of failure to quit in a community sample: Effects of gender

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This daily motivational guide helps the new nonsmoker understand the craving for nicotine and learn how to break the rituals and patterns associated with relapse

Keep Quit! – A Motivational Guide to a Life Without Smoking: Quit & Stay Quit Nicotine Cessation Program

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This guide to nicotine recovery offers an effective long-term program to quit by showing readers how smoking has subtly shaped their values, attitudes, and lives. Through an increased awareness and understanding, smokers increase their changes of becoming nonsmokers.

Quit and Stay Quit – A Personal Program to Stop Smoking: Quit & Stay Quit Nicotine Cessation Program