To what extent do smokers plan quit attempts?

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Little is known about the extent to which quit attempts are planned ahead or initiated immediately following a sudden decision to quit. This is important because if most smokers quit abruptly, rather than plan ahead, this could impact heavily upon recommendations to health care professionals on the kind of smoking cessation advice they deliver to patients. This paper aims to address this gap in knowledge by examining detailed smoking histories taken from smoking and ex-smoking patients.

Design

Face-to-face in depth semi-structured interviews.

Participants

146 smoking and ex-smoking patients within a family medicine practice were recruited by means of screening 700 consecutive patients (14 years of age and older) and inviting eligible patients to participate. To b

SUBMITTER: Larabie LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1748114 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature