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Self-efficacy and smoking cessation: a meta-analysis.

Chad J Gwaltney¹, Jane Metrik, Christopher W Kahler

¹Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Department of Community Health, Brown University, USA. chad_gwaltney@brown.edu

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors : Journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors

|March 18, 2009

Summary

Self-efficacy (SE), or confidence in quitting smoking, reliably predicts abstinence but is less robust than expected. Controlling for current smoking status significantly reduces the observed relationship, suggesting many studies overestimate SE

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Electroencephalographic, Heart Rate, and Galvanic Skin Response Assessment for an Advertising Perception Study: Application to Antismoking Public Service Announcements

Electroencephalographic, Heart Rate, and Galvanic Skin Response Assessment for an Advertising Perception Study: Application to Antismoking Public Service Announcements

Published on: August 28, 2017

Area of Science:

Psychology
Behavioral Science
Addiction Research

Background:

Relapse models suggest self-efficacy (SE) is crucial for smoking cessation success.
Confidence in one's ability to abstain is theorized to predict quit attempt outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

To prospectively examine the relationship between self-efficacy and future smoking behavior.
To investigate how population and timing of SE assessment influence this relationship.

Main Methods:

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 54 prospective studies.
Analysis of the correlation between SE scores and subsequent smoking status.

Main Results:

A modest relationship (0.21 SD) was found when SE was assessed before a quit attempt.
A stronger relationship (0.47 SD) emerged when SE was assessed post-quit, diminishing when only abstainers were analyzed (0.28 SD).
Controlling for smoking status at SE assessment substantially reduced the SE-smoking relationship.

Conclusions:

Self-efficacy has a reliable, yet less robust than anticipated, association with smoking abstinence.
Methodological considerations, particularly controlling for concurrent smoking behavior, are vital for accurate SE-smoking relationship estimation.