TY - JOUR
T1 - Correlates of smoking cessation self-efficacy in a community sample of smokers
AU - Martinez, Elisa
AU - Tatum, Kristina L.
AU - Glass, Marcella
AU - Bernath, Albert
AU - Ferris, Daron
AU - Reynolds, Patrick
AU - Schnoll, Robert A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by grant RSGPB-05-240-01-CPPB to Dr. Schnoll from the American Cancer Society and National Institutes of Health grant U10 101178 to Dr. Paul Engstrom. This study was also supported in part by grants: P50 DA02585, R01 CA126969, R01 DA025078, and R21 DA026889. The funding sources had no additional role in the study.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - While numerous studies show that higher levels of smoking cessation self-efficacy predicts motivation to quit smoking and successful smoking cessation, few studies have evaluated factors related to smoking cessation self-efficacy that could be targets of behavioral interventions to promote greater confidence to quit smoking. This study, using a large community sample of smokers enrolled in a smoking cessation treatment program, evaluated potential associations between self-efficacy to quit smoking and demographic (e.g., age, race), smoking-related (e.g., rate, cessation history, past use of treatments), and psychosocial (e.g., stress, cue reactivity, self-medication smoking) variables. The results indicated that Hispanic-American smokers, relative to smokers of other racial/ethnic groups, report significantly lower self-efficacy to quit smoking when facing internal stimuli (e.g., feeling depressed), as do smokers who report that they have little confidence to control abstinence-induced symptoms (F(9,576) = 6.9, p < .001). The results also indicated that smokers who reported that they have little confidence to control abstinence-induced symptoms and report high smoking urge reactivity to situations that illicit positive affect (e.g., at a bar, with coffee, at a party) report lower self-efficacy to quit smoking when facing external stimuli (e.g., during a celebration; F[7,600] = 9.05, p < .05). These findings can be used to refine behavioral smoking cessation interventions to increase self-efficacy to quit smoking.
AB - While numerous studies show that higher levels of smoking cessation self-efficacy predicts motivation to quit smoking and successful smoking cessation, few studies have evaluated factors related to smoking cessation self-efficacy that could be targets of behavioral interventions to promote greater confidence to quit smoking. This study, using a large community sample of smokers enrolled in a smoking cessation treatment program, evaluated potential associations between self-efficacy to quit smoking and demographic (e.g., age, race), smoking-related (e.g., rate, cessation history, past use of treatments), and psychosocial (e.g., stress, cue reactivity, self-medication smoking) variables. The results indicated that Hispanic-American smokers, relative to smokers of other racial/ethnic groups, report significantly lower self-efficacy to quit smoking when facing internal stimuli (e.g., feeling depressed), as do smokers who report that they have little confidence to control abstinence-induced symptoms (F(9,576) = 6.9, p < .001). The results also indicated that smokers who reported that they have little confidence to control abstinence-induced symptoms and report high smoking urge reactivity to situations that illicit positive affect (e.g., at a bar, with coffee, at a party) report lower self-efficacy to quit smoking when facing external stimuli (e.g., during a celebration; F[7,600] = 9.05, p < .05). These findings can be used to refine behavioral smoking cessation interventions to increase self-efficacy to quit smoking.
KW - Cue reactivity
KW - Perceived control
KW - Self-efficacy
KW - Smoking
KW - Tobacco
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U2 - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.09.016
DO - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.09.016
M3 - Article
C2 - 19804945
AN - SCOPUS:70350780178
SN - 0306-4603
VL - 35
SP - 175
EP - 178
JO - Addictive Behaviors
JF - Addictive Behaviors
IS - 2
ER -