title: Does living with smokers make quitting cigarettes more difficult?
abstract: To test the assumptions that living with smokers and having housemates with low interest in one's stopping smoking would make quitting cigarettes difficult, successful stoppers were compared with non-stoppers for housemates ' smoking and attitudes. Subjects were 147 people who attended several American Cancer Society Stop Smoking Clinics. Chances of stopping smoking were not enhanced by living either with non-smokers or with people believed to have high interest in one's stopping regardless of how close their relationship was. Giving up a smoking addiction seems to require inner motivation from the smoker, with external cues for smoking and support having minimal influence in a clinic stopping process.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking; D012931:Social Environment; D012932:Social Facilitation