Self-related neural response to tailored smoking-cessation messages predicts quitting
Hannah Faye Chua1, S Shaun Ho, Agnes J Jasinska
1Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. hchua@umich.edu
Nature Neuroscience
|March 2, 2011
Abstract:
Tailored health interventions can be more effective in eliciting positive behavior change than generic interventions, but the underlying neural mechanisms are not yet understood. Here, 91 smokers participated in a functional magnetic resonance imaging session and a tailored smoking-cessation program. We found that increases in activation in self-related processing regions, particularly dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, to tailored messages predicted quitting during a 4-month follow-up.

