Trial reportAddictive behaviors2009
Smokers' beliefs about the inability to stop smoking.
Trial report in Addictive behaviors, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- A novel stress-based intervention reduces cigarette use in non-treatment seeking smokers.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Trial
- Randomized trial comparing mindfulness training for smokers to a matched control.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2014Trial
- Perceived motivators and barriers to implementation of a smoke-free common area policy in multiunit housing in urban Bangladesh.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A neurobiological correlate of stress-induced nicotine-seeking behavior among cigarette smokers.Addiction biology · 2020Article
- Quitting behaviours and cessation methods used in eight European Countries in 2018: findings from the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys.European journal of public health · 2020Article
- 'Very brief advice' (VBA) on smoking in family practice: a qualitative evaluation of the tobacco user's perspective.BMC family practice · 2020Article
- Brain Marker Links Stress and Nicotine Abstinence.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Article
- Smoking Cessation Beliefs Among Saudi University Students in Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2020Article
- Perceived role of motivation and self-efficacy in smoking cessation: A secondary data analysis.Addictive behaviors · 2016Article
- Cross-Sectional Survey on Quitting Attempts among Adolescent Smokers in Dharan, Eastern Nepal.Journal of addiction · 2016Article
- Patient-reported receipt of and interest in smoking-cessation interventions after a diagnosis of cancer.Cancer · 2011Article
- Smokers and non-smokers differ in their beliefs about their addiction: public health implications.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueArticle
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Abstract
We recruited 367 current daily smokers via the Internet and randomized them to rate the causes of an inability to stop smoking, inability to stop problem alcohol use, or inability to lose excess weight in a fictional scenarios. Most smokers attributed inability to stop smoking to addiction (88%), habit (88%) and stress (62%). Surprisingly, equal numbers of smokers agreed and disagreed that inability to stop smoking was due to lack of willpower or motivation. Most disagreed that it was due to biological factors, denial, family/upbringing, genetics, mental disease, personality problem, psychological problems, or weakness of character. Many expected correlations among perceived causes were not found; e.g. endorsement of addiction was not inversely related to endorsement of willpower. Most smokers endorsed treatment. Higher ratings of addiction were related to endorsing treatment, and higher ratings of motivation were related to endorsing no need for treatment; however, these relationships were of small magnitude. Ratings of almost all the causes varied across the three problems; e.g. ratings of addiction were greater for smoking than for problem alcohol use. In summary, smokers appear to view the inability to stop smoking as multicausal; however, their views of causes are only weakly related to attitudes towards treatment. Given the several unexpected findings, qualitative research into smokers' conceptualizations about smokers' inability to stop smoking is indicated.
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