نتایج جستجو برای: quit

تعداد نتایج: 8145  

2013
Daniel Romer Ellen Peters Andrew A. Strasser Daniel Langleben

Pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs create aversive emotional reactions to smoking and induce thoughts about quitting; however, contrary to models of health behavior change, they do not appear to alter intentions to quit smoking. We propose and test a novel model of intention to quit an addictive habit such as smoking (the efficacy-desire model) that can explain this paradoxical effect...

Journal: :Journal of public health 2010
David C N Wong Sophia S C Chan Sai-Yin Ho Daniel Y T Fong Tai-Hing Lam

BACKGROUND Behavioral theories suggest that a past quit attempt influences psycho-social determinants to predict smokers' intention to quit, although no study has tested the hypothesis among youth smokers. METHODS A sample of 1561 Chinese secondary students, who were current smokers, were collected in a cross-sectional school-based survey in Hong Kong. RESULTS For the 943 students with past...

Journal: :Nature Chemical Biology 2013

Journal: :Journal of abnormal psychology 2006
Danielle E McCarthy Thomas M Piasecki Michael C Fiore Timothy B Baker

This article describes a multidimensional, multivariate, and multilevel approach to the assessment of nicotine withdrawal. In this prospective study, 70 adult smokers assigned to an active or placebo nicotine patch condition completed multiple daily assessments using an electronic diary. Average and individual growth curves were estimated for affective and nonaffective withdrawal symptoms. All ...

2014
Aarohi Sharma Lisa Szatkowski

BACKGROUND An understanding of the characteristics of smokers who have never tried to quit may be useful to help identify and target these individuals and encourage them to attempt to give up smoking. Using national survey data we investigated variables associated with smokers reporting never having tried to quit. METHODS Using data from the 2007 and 2009 UK Office for National Statistics Opi...

Journal: :Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique 2004
David Hammond Paul W McDonald Geoffrey T Fong K Stephen Brown Roy Cameron

BACKGROUND To effectively address the health burden of tobacco use, tobacco control programs must find ways of motivating smokers to quit. The present study examined the extent to which former smokers' motivation to quit was influenced by two tobacco control policies recently introduced in the Waterloo Region: a local smoke-free bylaw and graphic cigarette warning labels. METHODS A random dig...

2016
Y K Bartlett N Gartland A Wearden C J Armitage B Borrelli

BACKGROUND Current evidence-based smoking cessation treatments in the UK are only offered to smokers ready to quit within 30 days. This study reports the experiences of smokers who are not ready to quit and explores the types of intervention approaches that might engage them. METHODS Five focus groups were conducted with smokers who had no plans to quit within 30 days (n = 32, 44 % female). V...

2016
Susan C Kaai Janet Chung-Hall Marie Chan Sun Premduth Burhoo Leelmanee Moussa Mi Yan Deerajen Ramasawmy Anne CK Quah Geoffrey T Fong

INTRODUCTION Mauritius has one of the highest rates of smoking in Africa. Smoking cessation is a priority for preventing tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study is to identify the predictors of quit intentions among smokers in Mauritius in order to strengthen tobacco control policies and inform the development and delivery of services that may increase the likelihood ...

2010
Fong-ching Chang Teh-wei Hu Shu-ying Lo Po-tswen Yu Kun-yu Chao Mei-ling Hsiao

OBJECTIVES In 2002, Taiwan launched a program to encourage doctors to provide brief cessation counselling to their patients during routine outpatient visits. This study is to compare and analyse the annual prevalence rate of receiving advice to quit smoking from health professionals before (2004) and after (2005, 2006) the increase in funding and the withdrawal of additional funding (2007). M...

Journal: :Addiction 2011
Taryn Sendzik Paul W McDonald K Stephen Brown David Hammond Roberta Ferrence

AIMS To examine the use and role of planned quit attempts by smokers and their impact on abstinence. DESIGN Retrospective, using longitudinal data from the Ontario Tobacco Survey. SETTING Ontario, Canada. PARTICIPANTS A total of 551 adult smokers who reported having made a quit attempt during 2007-08. MEASUREMENTS Reported planning of the most recent quit attempt (i.e. unplanned or plan...

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