Thought, Affect, and Motivation to Quit Smoking

戒烟的想法、情感和动机

• 批准号: 6930500
• 负责人: KEVIN D MCCAUL
• 金额: $ 12.69万
• 依托单位: NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6930500
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; disease /disorder proneness /risk; emotions; health behavior; human subject; motivation; personal computers; personal log /diary; questionnaires; smoking cessation; tobacco abuse; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Most research on cigarette smoking cessation has addressed ways to improve the chances that smokers trying to quit will be successful. Researchers have paid much less attention to motivating cessation attempts among smokers less interested in quitting. Available evidence suggests that the strongest motivator of quit attempts is "concern" about one's health. However, very little is known about the nature of such concerns, including whether they must be accompanied by negative affect in order to motivate interest in cessation. To address this gap in our knowledge, we propose two different studies. Both experiments will include college students and community residents who are daily cigarette smokers. In Study 1, 45 students and 45 community residents will carry PalmPilots TM for two weeks of daily recording. An additional 30 smokers will complete end-of-week recordings to provide for an assessment of reactive effects of the daily monitoring activities. We wilt use event-contingent (tied to smoking a cigarette), signal-contingent (random intervals during the day), and interval-contingent (end of day) self-recording to elicit smokers' thoughts about smoking and worry. This study will be one of the first to assess the frequency with which these kinds of thoughts and feelings occur during the daily lives of smokers. In a second study, 60 college student smokers and 60 community residents will be signaled multiple times per day, on a random schedule, for two weeks. When signaled, they will turn on a PalmPilot TM that carries one of two sets of instructions: a) to remember a message about the negative (e.g., immediate health, social, and long-term health) consequences of smoking, or b) to remember a message about hassles associated with day-to-day life. We expect that the smoking consequences reminders may have little effect on beliefs about smoking, including risk perceptions. However, we predict that the reminders of smoking consequences will increase worry about smoking and motivation to quit. Together, these studies will inform us about how worry relates to the experience of smoking cigarettes and beliefs and feelings about quitting. The data will have implications for constructing risk messages and for how health professionals might encourage quit attempts among the millions of Americans who continue to smoke.

描述（由申请人提供）：大多数关于戒烟的研究都提出了提高吸烟者戒烟成功机会的方法。研究人员对激励对戒烟不太感兴趣的吸烟者尝试戒烟的关注要少得多。现有证据表明，尝试戒烟的最强烈动机是对健康的“担忧”。然而，人们对这些担忧的性质知之甚少，包括它们是否必须伴随着负面影响才能激发戒烟的兴趣。为了解决我们的知识差距，我们提出了两项​​不同的研究。这两项实验都将包括每天吸烟的大学生和社区居民。在研究 1 中，45 名学生和 45 名社区居民将携带 PalmPilots TM 进行两周的日常记录。另外 30 名吸烟者将完成周末记录，以评估日常监测活动的反应效果。我们将使用事件相关（与吸烟相关）、信号相关（一天中的随机间隔）和间隔相关（一天结束）自我记录来引发吸烟者对吸烟和担忧的想法。这项研究将是第一个评估吸烟者日常生活中此类想法和感受出现频率的研究之一。在第二项研究中，60 名大学生吸烟者和 60 名社区居民将在两周内每天随机收到多次信号。当收到信号时，他们将打开带有两组指令之一的 PalmPilot TM：a）记住有关吸烟的负面（例如，直接健康、社会和长期健康）后果的信息，或 b）记住一条关于日常生活中的麻烦的信息。我们预计吸烟后果提醒可能对吸烟信念（包括风险认知）影响不大。然而，我们预测，吸烟后果的提醒会增加对吸烟的担忧和戒烟的动力。总之，这些研究将告诉我们担忧与吸烟的经历以及戒烟的信念和感受之间的关系。这些数据将对构建风险信息以及卫生专业人员如何鼓励数百万继续吸烟的美国人尝试戒烟产生影响。