Correlates of smoking cessation self-efficacy in a community sample of smokers.
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.
Martinez
Elisa
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, 4th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States. emart@mail.med.upenn.edu
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Kristina L
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Glass
Marcella
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Bernath
Albert
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Ferris
Daron
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Reynolds
Patrick
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Schnoll
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D018722:Nicotinic Agonists / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012307:Risk Factors; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012907:Smoking / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
D018722:Nicotinic Agonists