Characteristics Affecting Successful Outcome in the Cessation of Smoking
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 20 (9) , 1429-1434
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088509047775
Abstract
In this study predictors of successful smoking cessation among 166 clients of a smoking cessation program were examined via multiple regression analyses. Results showed that 7 significant predictors accounted for 25% of the variance in successful smoking cessation. Abstainers tended to have higher incomes, to rate pregnancy as a motivation more highly, to have made fewer previous attempts to quit, and to be low on habit smoking, to crave cigarettes more in low-arousal situations, to be stimulus reducers, and to be older.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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