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In many domains of health risk prevention and management, tailoring messages specifically for different stages of change is critical. In the context of smoking cessation, this research represents an initial attempt to discover stage-specific affective profiles in terms of guilt versus shame. It then examines whether stage-congruent emotional appeals increase the persuasiveness of antismoking campaigns. Study 1 found that participants felt more negative self-conscious emotions as they entered the later stages of smoking cessation, showing more salient emotional states of guilt rather than shame. Study 2 found that stage-emotion compatibility, such as that exhibited by participants in the early stages of change, was not altered by emotional appeals regardless of the emotional type. In contrast, those in the later stages of change perceived guilt rather than shame appeals to be more effective and displayed greater smoking cessation intention. Through this, current research takes an important step toward theoretically identifying the affective states associated with different stages of change for smoking cessation and helps practitioners use emotional appeals effectively and appropriately in public health campaigns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the perception of smoking prevention programs in schools by the teachers. Method/Statistical analysis: The survey was conducted from December 30, 2015 to October 31,2016 by web survey in Gyeonggi-do in Korea. The subjects of the study were 95 health teachers working in 95 elementary, middle and high schools in Gyeonggi Province. The analysis of the study was conducted using the SPSS 23.0 Windows version program, and the analysis was performed using frequency analysis and chi-square test. Findings: The perceptions of health teachers on school smoking prevention programs differ according to the type of school, which is the structural environmental characteristic of the school where the health teacher works, and the designation of smoking cessation in the school. Improvements/Applications: As a result of this study, it is considered that it is necessary to establish an in - school smoking cessation environment such as designation of smoking cessation in school, smoking counseling, and smoking prevention program that affects the level of perception of smoking cessation by school teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the roles that the media effects and persuasion ethics schemas play in people's responses to an antismoking ad in South Korea. An online experiment was conducted with 347 adults. The media effects schema was manipulated with news stories on an antismoking campaign's effectiveness, while the persuasion ethics schema was measured and median-split. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests were performed for issue attitudes (Iatt), attitude toward the ad (Aad), and behavioral intention (BI). Results show significant main effects of themedia effects schema on the three dependent variables. People in the weakmedia effects condition had significantly lower Iatt, Aad, and BI than those in either the strong media effects condition or the control condition. This pattern was more pronounced among smokers. While there was no significant main effect of the persuasion ethics schema on any of the dependent variables, a significant interaction effect for persuasion ethics schema and smoking status was found on behavioral intention (BI). Nonsmokers' BI was significantly higher than smokers' in the low-persuasion ethics schema condition, but it was not significant in the highpersuasion ethics schema condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the indirect effect of source information on attitudes toward antismoking campaigns through perceived bias and psychological reactance by employing a survey experiment (N = 416). Findings demonstrate that an editorial advocating antismoking campaigns from ideologically congruent media is perceived as less biased than the same editorial from hostile media. The perceived bias is linked to perceived threat to freedom, which, in turn, is linked to psychological reactance against the editorial, resulting in less favorable attitudes toward antismoking campaigns. Smokers are more likely to show the linkages than nonsmokers. Implications of the findings are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The relationship between second-hand smoking and laryngopathy has not yet been reported. Thus, this study investigates the relationship between second-hand smoking and laryngopathy and suggests basic empirical data to prevent laryngopathy. Methods: This study analyzed 1,905 non-smokers over the age of 19 (269 men and 1,636 women) who completed the health questionnaire, laryngeal endoscope test, and urine cotinine test in the 2008 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). Second-hand smoking was defined as a urine cotinine concentration of 50ng/ml and over. Confounding factors included age, gender, education, household income, occupation, alcohol consumption, and coffee consumption. Risk ratios (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were presented for the relationship between second-hand smoking and laryngopathy by using Poisson regression analysis. Results: There was a significant relationship between second-hand smoking and laryngopathy (p<0.05). After all compounding factors were adjusted, non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoking had a 2.5 times (RR = 2.47, 95% CI: 1.19–5.08) significantly higher risk of laryngopathy than non-smokers not exposed to second-hand smoking (p<0.05). Conclusion: In this epidemiological study, there was a significant relationship between second-hand smoking and laryngopathy. More effective anti-smoking policies are required to protect the health of both non-smokers and smokers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]