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

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...

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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...

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...