Do environmental cues prompt attempts to stop smoking? A prospective natural history study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We prospectively tested whether environmental cues prompts attempts to stop smoking.

Methods

We recruited 134 smokers who intended to quit in the next 3 months to complete nightly calls to report cues as well as smoking status, intentions to smoke or not on the next day, and quit attempts over 12 weeks. We provided no treatment.

Results

Participants averaged 6.5 cues/week. The most common cues were embarrassment, cost of cigarettes and messages in the media. The number of cues over a 7-day period predicted the incidence of a quit attempt on the eighth day (e.g. from 1.5% when no cues occurred to 3% when 7 cues occurred during the 7 days). This effect was dose-dependent and was due to both between and within-subject predictors. Five cues predicted quit att

SUBMITTER: Hughes JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4540219 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature