Trial reportNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2013
Counseling nondaily smokers about secondhand smoke as a cessation message: a pilot randomized trial.
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- Real-World Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Strategies for Young and Older Adults: Findings From a Nationally Representative Cohort.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Article
- Intent to quit, quit attempts, and perceived health risk reduction among African American, Latino, and White nondaily and daily smokers in the United States.Ethnicity & health · 2019Article
- Disparities in knowledge and use of tobacco treatment among smokers in California following healthcare reform.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- A randomized clinical trial of counseling and nicotine replacement therapy for treatment of African American non-daily smokers: Design, accrual, and baseline characteristics.Contemporary clinical trials · 2018Article
- Biomarkers of exposure to new and emerging tobacco delivery products.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2017Review
- "You have the right to protect your health": Perceptions of Secondhand Smoke and Exposure Mitigation Strategies in Low-Income Patients With Heart Disease, San Francisco, 2011-2012.Preventing chronic disease · 2016Article
- Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior and Dependence Motives Among Daily and Nondaily Smokers.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Article
- Smoking dependence across the levels of cigarette smoking in a multiethnic sample.Addictive behaviors · 2015Article
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- Young adult social smokers: their co-use of tobacco and alcohol, tobacco-related attitudes, and quitting efforts.Preventive medicine · 2014Article
- Psychosocial and behavioral characteristics among subgroups of nondaily college student smokers.Tobacco use insights · 2014Article
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Abstract
introductionNondaily smoking represents a substantial and growing fraction of smokers, many of whom do not consider themselves smokers or at risk of tobacco-related diseases and, so, may be less responsive to counseling content contained in traditional cessation interventions. This study compares the effects brief counseling interventions (<20 min) focused on the harm smoking does to themselves (harm to self, HTS) versus the harm their secondhand smoke (SHS) does to others (harm to others, HTO) among nondaily smokers.
methodsRandomized trial of 52 nondaily smokers (smoked in the past week, but not daily) recruited between September 2009 and June 2010; 40 completed the study. We measured changes in motivation and smoking status at 3 months postintervention.
resultsThere was a difference in quitting between the two groups, with 9.5% (2 out of 21) for HTS and 36.8% (7 out of 19) for HTO subjects reporting not smoking any cigarettes in the prior week (p = .06 by Fisher exact test and .035 by likelihood-ratio chi-square). Motivation and self-efficacy increased from baseline to 3-month follow-up, but not differentially by intervention group.
conclusionsConsistent with findings from research conducted by the tobacco industry as early as the 1970s that concluded that social smokers feel immune from the personal health effects of tobacco but are concerned about the consequences of their SHS on others, educating nondaily smokers about the dangers of SHS to others appears to be a more powerful cessation message than traditional smoking cessation counseling that emphasizes the harmful consequences to the smoker.
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