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SmokeQuit - Optimizing an online motivational tobacco cessation program

PI: Jennifer McClure, PhD
affiliation: Group Health Cooperative
topic:

smoking, motivation, cessation, tailoring, decisional framework, self-efficacy, message framing, proactive outreach, internet, web

medium: Internet, web
audience: Smokers who are not ready to quit smoking
grant: Optimizing an online motivational tobacco cessation program
sponsor: National Cancer Institute
number: R01 CA138598-01
dates: 2009-04-01 - 2012-12-31

About 80% or more of smokers are not sufficiently motivated and ready to quit smoking, even though they may want to quit someday. Interventions are critically needed which can reach these people, enhance their motivation for quitting, promote uptake of existing empirically-validated treatments, and ultimately enhance abstinence rates on a population level. The current study will test the effectiveness of five potentially important tailoring factors (decisional framework, message framing, self-efficacy, navigation autonomy, and proactive outreach) to increase motivation to quit.