One-Year Smoking Trajectories Among Established Adult Smokers With Low Baseline Motivation to Quit
Author(s) -
Amanda R. Mathew,
Elizabeth GarrettMayer,
Bryan W. Heckman,
Amy E. Wahlquist,
Matthew J. Carpenter
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
nicotine and tobacco research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1469-994X
pISSN - 1462-2203
DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntw264
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , quit smoking , medicine , naturalistic observation , demography , population , tobacco control , baseline (sea) , randomized controlled trial , cigarette smoking , psychology , public health , clinical psychology , environmental health , social psychology , oceanography , nursing , pathology , sociology , geology
The majority of smokers do not intend to quit in the near term, making unmotivated smokers a key group to target in public health efforts. Although it is often assumed that continuing smokers will have stable rates of smoking over time, limited research has addressed this issue, particularly among smokers not seeking treatment. In the current study, the aims were to (1) characterize the trajectory of naturalistic smoking among unmotivated smokers and (2) examine relationships between naturalistic smoking trajectories and other smoking-related variables.
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