Gender, smoking expectancies, and readiness to quit among urban African American smokers

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A study was conducted among four hundred and eighty-four urban African American smokers for determining the relationship between smoking expectancies and readiness to quit smoking and explore the best combination of expectancies, which will help in predicting the readiness to quit. The results confirmed that both positive and negative expectancies may be related to the motivation to quit and men and women do not differ in their readiness to quit and weight-control expectancies.

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Smoking patterns and abstinence effects in smokers with no ADHD, childhood ADHD, and adult ADHD symptomatology

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This article discusses the relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and smoking. The authors, testing the theory that nicotince dependence and abstinence effects would be more pronounced in persons with ADHD symptomatology, conclude both adult and childhood ADHD groups experienced more nicotine withdrawal symptoms than the non-ADHD group.

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Psychosocial correlates of smoking cessation among elderly ever-smokers in the United States

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A study was conducted to identify the psychosocial factors associated with successful smoking cessation among ever-smokers aged 60 and older in the United States. Findings suggest that strategies tailored to psychological distress and beliefs about smoking health harms and smoking restriction policies would aid in successful cessation.

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