Daily support seeking as coping strategy in dual-smoker couples attempting to quit.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Smoking cessation is a stressful event and lapses are frequent. The dynamic model of relapse has been criticized for not integrating interpersonal factors as phasic influences. Seeking social support, as a coping strategy to deal with cravings, may help to refrain from smoking.

Design

Overall, 83 heterosexual dual-smoker couples reported on their craving, the extent of seeking social support from one's partner regarding smoking cessation, and their number of cigarettes smoked in smartphone-based end-of-day diaries, from a joint self-set quit date on across 22 consecutive days.

Main outcome measure

Number of cigarettes smoked.

Results

Multilevel analyses indicated that on days with higher-than-average levels of craving, male and female smokers reported

SUBMITTER: Schwaninger P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9344997 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature