Quit Early, Quit Often

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.

Smokers' expectations to quit smoking.

We investigate the effectiveness of different smoking policies on smokers' expectations to quit smoking using a choice experiment on a sample of smokers identified within the World Health Organization (WHO) MONICA Project. Our results indicate that restricted availability, increased cigarette prices, cessation subsidies and regulations at restaurants, bars and cafes increase the expected probab...

When Players Quit (Playing Scrabble)

What features contribute to player enjoyment and player retention has been a popular research topic in video games research; however, the question of what causes players to quit a game has received little attention by comparison. In this paper, we examine 5 quantitative features of the game Scrabblesque in order to determine what behaviors are predictors of a player prematurely ending a game se...