A randomized trial comparing the effects of self-help materials and proactive telephone counseling on teen smoking cessation

Article Abstract:

A randomized trial was conducted to study the effect of self-help materials and telephone counseling on increasing cessation of smoking in teenagers. Results indicate that while self-help materials are effective, telephone-counseling approaches need more refinement to achieve the success got with adult populations.

Science & research, Management dynamics, Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, Antismoking Programs, Research, Practice, Influence, Clinical trials, Smoking cessation programs, Smoking cessation, Hotlines (Counseling), Self-help techniques, Self help techniques, Crisis intervention (Psychiatry), Hotlines (Counselling)

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Dynamic effects of self-efficacy on smoking lapse and relapse

Article Abstract:

Issues regarding the power of the belief in an ability to quit the habit on the smoker's ability to do so are discussed.. A study of 214 smokers' daily variations in this belief during the first month after quitting provides the data.

Management, Tobacco habit

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