title: Comparison of the smoking behaviour and attitudes of smokers who attribute respiratory symptoms to smoking with those who do not.
abstract: General practitioners' (GPs') advice against smoking helps smokers to stop; unfortunately, GPs cannot predict which patients will quit following advice. This postal questionnaire survey suggests that where smokers attribute their respiratory symptoms to smoking, they are eight times (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.0-23.3) more likely to believe that their health will improve if they stop smoking and six times (95% CI = 1.4-23.3) more likely to intend to stop smoking.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Leicester.
authors.forename: Nikki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Walters
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Coleman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D012120:Respiration Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology*