CAMBODIAN TWELFTH GRADERS’ CHOICE FOR ENGLISH PRIVATE TUTORING: QUIT OR NOT TO QUIT?

Smoking reduction for smokers not able or motivated to quit?

Smoking reduction, i.e. a sustained decrease in the number of cigarettes smoked daily, is a highly controversial area. Results from population studies are reported as well as from the few randomized controlled studies published. The effect with regard to smoking reduction seems small and there is only limited evidence that smoking reduction is followed by improvement in some health-related para...

Quit early, quit often.

Quit Now? Quit Soon? Quit When You’re Ready? Insights About Target Quit Dates for Smoking Cessation From an Online Quit Date Tool

BACKGROUND Setting a target quit date (TQD) is often an important component in smoking cessation treatment, but ambiguity remains concerning the optimal timing (ie, quitting spontaneously versus delaying to prepare). OBJECTIVE We examined four questions about the timing of TQDs and smoking outcomes in secondary analyses of The iQUITT Study, a randomized trial of Internet and telephone treatme...

Options to quit *

This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker’s decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of quitting. Implications of the model’s closed form solution are consistent with the quit behavior of workers from a large Dutch company.  2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

How do prompts for attempts to quit smoking relate to method of quitting and quit success?

BACKGROUND Understanding how prompts for quit attempts relate to quitting methods and success may improve smoking cessation interventions. PURPOSE This study aims to establish whether prompts for quitting are associated with quitting method and success. METHODS Using a cross-sectional design, 6,126 past-year smokers who had tried to quit in the last 12 months, were asked to identify prompts...