Trial reportBMC public health2008
Reasons for not using smoking cessation aids.
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24 citing papers in PubMed.
- Can We Predict Who Will Experience Adverse Events While Using Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy? A Secondary Analysis of the EAGLES Clinical Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Trial
- A novel stress-based intervention reduces cigarette use in non-treatment seeking smokers.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Trial
- Effect of Helpers Stay Quit Online Training on Preventing Smoking Relapse and Personal Networks: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial and Embedded Mixed Methods Personal Network Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Protocol for a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a technology-assisted motivational interviewing (TAMI) chatbot on smoking cessation.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Adhesion molecules in focus: mechanistic pathways and therapeutic avenues in sickle cell vaso-occlusion - a narrative review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- Plasma Nerve Growth Factor Is Associated With Early Postoperative Shoulder Stiffness in Patients With Degenerative Rotator Cuff Tears.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2025Article
- Understanding cancer patients' desire to quit tobacco without assistance: A mixed-methods study.Journal of health psychology · 2024Article
- Mentioning smoking cessation assistance during healthcare consultations matters: findings from Dutch survey research.European journal of public health · 2022Article
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Long-Term Smoking Cessation: Preliminary Examination of Delay Discounting as a Therapeutic Target and the Effects of Intensity and Duration.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Subsidized pharmacological treatment for smoking cessation by the Spanish public health system: A randomized, pragmatic, clinical trial by clusters.Tobacco induced diseases · 2019Article
- Is nicotine replacement therapy overvalued in smoking cessation? Analysis of smokers' and quitters' communication in social media.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2015Article
- Conceptual obstacles to making use of four smoking-cessation strategies: What reasons do light smokers give for rejecting strategies?Health psychology open · 2015Article
- Why Don't Smokers Want Help to Quit? A Qualitative Study of Smokers' Attitudes towards Assisted vs. Unassisted Quitting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
- Why do smokers try to quit without medication or counselling? A qualitative study with ex-smokers.BMJ open · 2015Review
- Determining Smoking Cessation Related Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills among Opiate Dependent Smokers in Methadone Treatment.Substance use & misuse · 2015Article
- Are there income differences in the impact of a national reimbursement policy for smoking cessation treatment and accompanying media attention? Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands Survey.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Article
- Beliefs, experience, and interest in pharmacotherapy among smokers with HIV.American journal of health behavior · 2014Article
- Medicinal nicotine nonuse: smokers' rationales for past behavior and intentions to try medicinal nicotine in a future quit attempt.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Article
- The role of nicotine replacement therapy for temporary abstinence in the home to protect children from environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a qualitative study with disadvantaged smokers.BMC public health · 2013Article
- Socioeconomic disparities in community-based treatment of tobacco dependence.American journal of public health · 2012Article
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Abstract
backgroundFew smokers use effective smoking cessation aids (SCA) when trying to stop smoking. Little is known why available SCA are used insufficiently. We therefore investigated the reasons for not using SCA and examined related demographic, smoking behaviour, and motivational variables.
methodsData were collected in two population-based studies testing smoking cessation interventions in north-eastern Germany. A total of 636 current smokers who had never used SCA and had attempted to quit or reduce smoking within the last 12 months were given a questionnaire to assess reasons for non-use. The questionnaire comprised two subscales: "Social and environmental barriers" and "SCA unnecessary."
resultsThe most endorsed reasons for non-use of SCA were the belief to be able to quit on one's own (55.2%), the belief that help is not necessary (40.1%), and the belief that smoking does not constitute a big problem in one's life (36.5%). One quarter of all smokers reported that smoking cessation aids are not helpful in quitting and that the aids cost too much. Smokers intending to quit agreed stronger to both subscales and smokers with lower education agreed stronger to the subscale "Social and environmental barriers".
conclusionMain reasons for non-use of SCA are being overly self-confident and the perception that SCA are not helpful. Future interventions to increase the use of SCA should address these reasons in all smokers.
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