ArticleJournal of health communication2015
Talking About Quitting: Interpersonal Communication as a Mediator of Campaign Effects on Smokers' Quit Behaviors.
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- Associations of egocentric social network characteristics with conversations about the harms of smoking and the benefits of quitting.PloS one · 2026Trial
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- Can chatbots help to motivate smoking cessation? A study on the effectiveness of motivational interviewing on engagement and therapeutic alliance.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- Improving iron folic acid consumption through interpersonal communication: Findings from the Reduction in Anemia through Normative Innovations (RANI) project.Patient education and counseling · 2022Trial
- Neural responses to peers moderate conversation-drinking associations in daily life.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effectiveness and User Experience of a Smoking Cessation Chatbot: Mixed Methods Study Comparing Motivational Interviewing and Confrontational Counseling.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- From Health Campaign to Interpersonal Communication: Does Traditional Diet Culture Hinder the Communication of the ChineseInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Facebook-Based Social Marketing to Reduce Smoking in Australia's First Nations Communities: An Analysis of Reach, Shares, and Likes.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Cessation Conversations and Quit Attempts: Differences by Ethnicity and Language Preference.American journal of health behavior · 2020Article
- Breadth of Media Scanning Leads to Vaping among Youth and Young Adults: Evidence of Direct and Indirect Pathways from a National Longitudinal Survey.Journal of health communication · 2020Article
- Networked collective intelligence improves dissemination of scientific information regarding smoking risks.PloS one · 2020Article
- Speaking up about Lighting up in Public: Examining Psychosocial Correlates of Smoking and Vaping Assertive Communication Intentions among U.S. Adults.Health communication · 2019Article
- Adolescents' Neural Response to Tobacco Prevention Messages and Sharing Engagement.American journal of preventive medicine · 2019Article
- Adolescent neural responses to antismoking messages, perceived effectiveness, and sharing intention.Media psychology · 2019Article
- Conversations about pictorial cigarette pack warnings: Theoretical mechanisms of influence.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Article
- Sharing Tobacco and E-Cigarette Information: Predicting its Occurrence and Valence among Youth and Young Adults.Health communication · 2018Article
- Testing the Replication and Extension of Why-Quit and How-To-Quit Antismoking Health Messages.Journal of health communication · 2018Article
- Graphic health warnings as activators of social networks: A field experiment among individuals of low socioeconomic position.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2017Article
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Abstract
This study examined the role of interpersonal communication in the context of a mass media anti-smoking campaign. Specifically, it explored whether conversations about campaign ads and/or about quitting mediated campaign exposure effects on 2 quitting behaviors (sought help to quit and tried to quit smoking completely), as well as the relation between ad-related and quitting-related conversations. Data were collected before the campaign and monthly for 16 months during the campaign through cross-sectional telephone surveys among a sample of 3,277 adult Philadelphia smokers. Follow-up interviews were conducted among 877 participants 3 months after their first survey. Cross-sectional and longitudinal mediation models with bootstrap procedures assessed the indirect effects of campaign exposure on outcomes through conversations, and the indirect effects of conversations about ads on outcomes through conversations about quitting. In addition, lagged regression analyses tested the causal direction of associations between the variables of interest. The results partially support hypotheses that conversations about quitting mediate campaign effects on quitting-related behaviors and, in line with previous research, that conversations about the ads have indirect effects on quitting-related behaviors by triggering conversations about quitting. These findings demonstrate the importance of considering interpersonal communication as a route of campaign exposure effects when evaluating and designing future public health campaigns.
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