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Examining the Effectiveness of a Community-Based Self-Help Program to Increase Women's Readiness for Smoking Cessation

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American Journal of Community Psychology

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This study investigated the effectiveness of two components of a smoking cessation intervention: a reading manual and a series of televised programs. Female smokers in the Chicago metropolitan area with a high school education or less were interviewed at 4 different times: baseline, immediate postintervention, and 6 and 12 months. We examined the effects of several baseline measures (race, age, number of cigarettes smoked, and stage of readiness to change) and exposure to the intervention components on subsequent stage of change. Race, baseline smoking rate, baseline stage, and exposure to both intervention components had direct effects on stage at immediate postintervention, with both intervention components increasing readiness to quit. Furthermore, exposure to the manual interacted with baseline stage, such that the manual benefited women at earlier stages more than women at later stages. Effects of both components were sustained at 6 months, and the effects of the manual were sustained at 12 months.

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    Lindsey R. Turner

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    Osvaldo F. Morera, Timothy P. Johnson, Kathleen S. Crittenden, Sally Freels, Jennifer Parsons, Brian Flay & Richard B. Warnecke

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Turner, L.R., Morera, O.F., Johnson, T.P. et al. Examining the Effectiveness of a Community-Based Self-Help Program to Increase Women's Readiness for Smoking Cessation. Am J Community Psychol 29, 465–491 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010375931040

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