Testing Familial Self-affirmation for Smoking Cessation

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Evidence suggests that affirming the self can help people to make changes in their health behavior. Typically, people affirm a personally-important value, but evidence suggests that affirming the values of family (familial self-affirmation) might exert stronger effects. The aim of the present study is to examine the effects of familial self-affirmation versus standard self-affirmation versus a control group on smoking cessation.

Official Title
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Testing Familial Self-affirmation for Smoking Cessation

Conditions
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Smoking Cessation

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Self-affirmation


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Smoker Exclusion Criteria: Non-smoker Unable or unwilling to complete questionnaire

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Experimental: Standard self-affirmation<br>Participants are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention at the end of a questionnaire: The beginning to a sentence appears below. Below it are 4 different ways of completing the sentence. On the lines below, please write out the beginning of the sentence and then complete it with 1 of the 4 options we have given you. If I feel threatened or anxious, then I will… think about the things I value about myself remember things that I have succeeded in think about what I stand for think about things that are important to me If…___________________________________________________________________ | Behavioral: Self-affirmation<br>* Participants are asked to complete a standard questionnaire and on the last page they are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention by copying out a sentence.<br>|
| Experimental: Experimental: Familial self-affirmation<br>Participants are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention at the end of a questionnaire: The beginning to a sentence appears below. Below it are 4 different ways of completing the sentence. On the lines below, please write out the beginning of the sentence and then complete it with 1 of the 4 options we have given you. If I feel threatened or anxious, then I will… think about the things my family and I value about ourselves remember things that my family and I have succeeded in think about what my family and I stand for think about things that are important to my family and me If…__________________________________________________________________ | Behavioral: Self-affirmation<br>* Participants are asked to complete a standard questionnaire and on the last page they are asked to form a self-affirming implementation intention by copying out a sentence.<br>|
| No Intervention: Control<br>Participants are asked to complete a questionnaire. | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Smoking cessation | Self-reported quitting | 1 month | 
| Quit attempts | Self-reported quit attempts | 1 month | 
| Nicotine dependence | Self-reported nicotine dependence | 1 month | 
| Craving | Self-reported cravings | 1 month | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Habit | Self-reported habit | 1 month | 
| Self-regulation | Self-reported self-regulation | 1 month | 
| Subjective well-being | Self-reported subjective well-being | 1 month |