The evidence shows that exposure to graphic warning labels increases smokers' knowledge of the health risks of smoking, and their intentions to quit, the likelihood that they attempt to quit and, most important, successful quitting.
The study examined racial/ethnic differences in smokers' intentions to quit smoking within the next 6 months.
There are several reasons why a tripartite perspective is well suited to understanding the influence of psychological ownership, territoriality, and work relationship closeness on employees' intentions to quit.
The findings from this initial analogue study suggest that attitudes and intentions to quit smoking can be influenced by a brief experiential intervention.
However, an interaction suggested that intentions to quit smoking were increased by either manipulation, but that the effects were not additive.
This study was designed as an initial test of whether an experiential learning intervention, based on cognitive dissonance theory, would increase college-student smokers' intentions to quit smoking.
Results of this study suggest that employees' feeling of psychological ownership leads to corresponding territoriality, and by engaging in territorial behavior they become more embedded in the organization, which further reduces intentions to quit.
For example, Jamal et al. (1998) showed that Canadian teachers who combined teaching with another job reported less burn-out and stress, lower intentions to quit their primary jobs as teachers and higher job performance.
This study analysed intentions to quit smoking, using the Stages of Change Model, among a population of current and/or former adult smokers in Serbia, and compared socio-economic and demographic characteristics.
Knowledge of perceived risks and benefits associated with smoking cessation is critical for public education campaigns and could inform intervention strategies designed to modify sex-specific beliefs associated with lowered behavioral intentions to quit smoking.
We show that learning of a neighbor's lung cancer diagnosis substantially affects smokers' subjective beliefs about smoking's harms, which in turn affects decisions about continued smoking and intentions to quit.
