Back to Search
Start Over
Addiction versus stages of change models in predicting smoking cessation.
- Source :
- Addiction; Sep1996, Vol. 91 Issue 9, p1271-1280, 10p, 2 Charts, 3 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 1996
-
Abstract
- Prospective data from the California Tobacco Surveys (n=2066) were used to perform a critical test of the Prochaska et al. (1991) stages of change model. When the stages of change model was used as a stand alone predictor, smokers in preparation at baseline were more likely to be in cessation at follow-up than smokers in pre-contemplation at baseline (OR adj=1.9) When stage membership was combined with baseline measures of addiction including smoking behaviors and quitting history, it was not a significant predictor of future cessation. A prediction equation that combined daily vs. occasional smoking, cigarettes per day smoked, life-time quits of at least a year, and quits of more than 5 days in the previous year discriminated smokers in cessation at follow-up of 1 to 2 years better than did the stages of change model. The area under the ROC curve for the equation based on addiction measures was 69.3% vs. 55.1% for the stages of change. Cessation rates ranged from 7.7% to 35.7% for the four-category addiction equation compared with 15.1% to 24.9% for stages of change model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SMOKING cessation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09652140
- Volume :
- 91
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Addiction
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9610232110
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb03608.x