Studying stimuli and smoking behaviors among self-identified gifted smokers and strategies for customizing cessation support.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The aim of the study was to examine smoking habits and triggers among self-identified gifted (inner experiences and awareness qualitatively different from the norm in terms of asynchronous development, advanced cognitive abilities, and heightened intensity) adults in order to customize smoking cessation support.

Methods

A total of 123 participants were enrolled through Facility-Based and Snowball Sampling. Quantitative analysis focused on the relationship between overexcitabilities, nicotine dependence, motivation to quit, and smoking triggers, using the following questionnaires: the Overexcitability Questionnaire (OEQ-II) an indicator of areas of overexcitability, a heightened response and lowered threshold to stimuli; the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependenc

SUBMITTER: Deligeorges D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8899801 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature