ArticleNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2014
Natural history of attempts to stop smoking.
Article in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00995644 (Natural History of Attempts to Stop Smoking), which is not on this map. Cited by 63 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Natural History of Attempts to Stop Smoking
Who cites it
63 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Efficiency and adverse events of electronic cigarettes: A systematic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA-compliant article).Medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Changes in smoking use and subsequent lung cancer risk in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2024Trial
- Increasing Quit Attempts by Transitioning to Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes Versus Reducing Number of Cigarettes Per Day: A Secondary Analysis of an Exploratory Randomized Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Trial
- A randomised controlled trial examining the efficacy of smoking-related response inhibition training in smokers: a study protocol.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Long-term effectiveness of mailed nicotine replacement therapy: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial 5-year follow-up.BMC public health · 2017Trial
- Antismoking Ads at the Point of Sale: The Influence of Ad Type and Context on Ad Reactions.Journal of health communication · 2017Trial
- Working alliance and empathy as mediators of brief telephone counseling for cigarette smokers who are not ready to quit.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Trial
- Motivational, reduction and usual care interventions for smokers who are not ready to quit: a randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Trial
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- Paths to tobacco abstinence: A repeated-measures latent class analysis.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2015Trial
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- A Comparison of Australian Oncology Clinicians' Smoking Cessation Care Practices for People Who Currently Smoke Versus Those Who Report Recently Stopping Smoking.Asia-Pacific journal of clinical oncology · 2025Article
- Latent transition analysis of use frequencies for multiple nicotine and tobacco products among US adults.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- Predictors of smoking abstinence among diabetic smokers: Evidence from the French national smoking cessation registry CDTnet.PloS one · 2025Article
- An overview of systematic reviews on predictors of smoking cessation among young people.PloS one · 2024Review
- Examining the latent factor structure of a hypothetical cigarette purchase task among pregnant women.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Psychiatric symptoms and intentions to quit smoking: How regularity and volume of cigarette consumption moderate the relationship.Tobacco induced diseases · 2023Article
- A Daily Assessment Study of Smoking Cessation After a Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Article
- Tobacco Use and Treatment of Tobacco Dependence Among People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Practical Guide for Clinicians.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Article
- Smokers' preferences for how to quit: the importance of promoting both assisted and unassisted cessation.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionThis study provides a prospective fine-grain description of the incidence and pattern of intentions to quit, quit attempts, abstinence, and reduction in order to address several clinical questions about self-quitting.
methodsA total of 152 smokers who planned to quit in the next 3 months called nightly for 12 weeks to an Interactive Voice Response system to report cigarettes/day, quit attempts, intentions to smoke or not in the next day, and so forth. No treatment was provided.
resultsMost smokers (60%) made multiple transitions among smoking, reduction, and abstinence. Intention to not smoke or quit often did not result in a quit attempt but were still strong predictors of a quit attempt and eventual abstinence. Most quit attempts (79%) lasted less than 1 day; about one fifth (18%) of the participants were abstinent at 12 weeks. The majority of quit attempts (72%) were not preceded by an intention to quit. Such quit attempts were shorter than quit attempts preceded by an intention to quit (<1 day vs. 25 days). Most smokers (67%) used a treatment, and use of a treatment was nonsignificantly associated with greater abstinence (14 days vs. 3 days). Making a quit attempt and failing early predicted an increased probability of a later quit attempt compared to not making a quit attempt early (86% vs. 67%). Smokers often (17%) failed to report brief quit attempts on an end-of-study survey.
conclusionsCessation is a more chronic, complex, and dynamic process than many theories or treatments assume.
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