Abstract. The aims of this study were to assess adolescents’ perceptions of the personal risks and prevalence of smoking, and to examine whether these perceptions were related and how they varied by gender, age and smoking status. A questionnaire survey ...
Alcohol-dependent inpatients use of tobacco: Smoking prevalence, motivation to change, and psychological stress<span class="fett">Aims:</span> Smoking prevalence and motivation to quit of alcohol-dependent in-patients in Germany were studied. The goal ...
Protocol and Effectiveness of Telephone Counselling for Smoking CessationBackground: Telephone quitlines can reach large numbers of people and provide effective counselling to reduce smoking-related morbidity and mortality. Call-back counselling with ...
<span class="fett">Aims:</span> </p><ol> <li>Assessment of motivation to change as viewed by primary-care patients and their physicians and</li> <li>analysis of associations of these assessments of motivation with sociodemographic and clinical ...
This study examines the role of attribute importance in expectancy-value models. Attitudes towards smoking were assessed by a) a direct attitude measure (four semantic differentials) and b) a series of 15 attribute statements. These attributes (negative ...
Long-term effects of a school-based prevention programAbstract.Aims: With the aim to influence social norms, school classes participating in the non-smoking competition “Be Smart – Don’t Start” commit themselves ...
The relevance of the learning environment for school-based health promotionAbstract. Research on health promotion in schools has so far largely neglected context factors such as school climate parameters. The success of prevention programs, however, ...
Abstract. Psychological correlates of adult nail biting have received little empirical attention so far, despite its high prevalence and negative associations with physical and mental health. One possible correlate of nail biting is arousal modulation, ...
Abstract. In this study, we combined approaches from media psychology and neuroscience to ask whether brain activity in response to online antismoking messages can predict smoking behavior change. In particular, we examined activity in ...
Effects of repeated participation in the
non-smoking competition »Be Smart – Don’t Start«<span class="fett">Aim:</span> To study the effects of repeated participation in the competition »Be Smart – Don’t Start«. </p><p> <span class="fett">Method:</span> ...
The assessment of craving in smokers with a German version of the ”Questionnaire on Smoking Urges“ (QSU-G)Abstract.Background: The ”Questionnaire on smoking urges“ (QSU) was developed by Tiffany and Drobes (1991) to assess craving for smoking. ...
Elevated risk of smoking in children with externalizing disordersAbstract.Background: Several studies have reported higher smoking rates among adolescents with externalizing disorders (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder) as ...
This paper reports some of the findings from a large-scale (N = 4970) longitudinal study evaluating the efficacy of two types of school-based intervention designed to discourage cigarette smoking in children between the ages of nine and thirteen. The ...
Three studies explored whether cognitive dissonance in smokers is reduced immediately or remains constant due to the perceived health risk. Because dissonance-reducing strategies might occur very quickly and previous research has focused only on ratings ...
Early onset of alcohol and tobacco use - indicator of enhanced risk of addiction?Summary:Objectives: The early onset of substance use is considered to be one of the best predictors of later addiction problems according to a number of U.S.-American ...
German Guideline for Smoking and Tobacco Dependence: Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment, Update 2021 – Short VersionAbstract.Introduction: In addition to the prevention of tobacco consumption, the ...
Gender-Related Analysis of Tobacco Consumption Among Nursing StudentsAbstract.Aim: Both the percentage of smokers and number of women among the nursing professions is disproportionally high. In this study we test whether male and female nursing students ...
Does smoking have a meaning for the self concept of smokers?Abstract. It is assumed, that health behaviors such as smoking are related to a persons self concept, but there is no empirical evidence. The individual meaning of smoking and its relation to ...