Assessment of Social Support and Quitting Smoking in an Online Community Forum: Study Involving Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A key factor in successfully reducing and quitting smoking, as well as preventing smoking relapse is access to and engagement with social support. Recent technological advances have made it possible for smokers to access social support via online community forums. While community forums associated with smoking cessation interventions are now common practice, there is a gap in understanding how and when the different types of social support identified by Cutrona and Suhr (1992) (emotional, esteem, informational, tangible, and network) are exchanged on such forums. Community forums that entail "superusers" (a key marker of a successful forum), like QuitNow, are ripe for exploring and leveraging promising social support exchanges on these platforms.

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SUBMITTER: Struik L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796047 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature