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To identify specific factors that predict employee participation, program attrition, and smoking cessation outcomes in a worksite intervention.

January 1, 1988Health Psychology

Factors associated with participation, attrition, and outcome in a smoking cessation program at the workplace.

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To identify specific factors that predict employee participation, program attrition, and smoking cessation outcomes in a worksite intervention.
Recruited regular cigarette smokers across two worksites (N=66 eligible; N=44 enrolled).
Evaluated baseline biological and psychological variables, including pretest carbon monoxide levels, nicotine brand strength, health risk perceptions, and weight gain concerns.
Assessed program completion and smoking abstinence at immediate posttest and at a 6-month follow-up.
Program participation was 67% (44 of 66), completion was 55% (24 of 44), and quit rates were 29% at posttest and 17% at the 6-month follow-up.
Participation was predicted by duration of past quit attempts, smoking history duration, and perceived vulnerability to disease, whereas attrition was predicted by baseline carbon monoxide levels and attitudes toward worksite smoking restrictions.
Posttest cessation was predicted by pretest brand nicotine levels and weight concerns, while 6-month abstinence was predicted by the number of smoking coworkers and pretest weight-gain concerns.

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Prospective study reveals distinct predictors of program enrollment, dropout, and abstinence in employed smokers, indicating that tailored interventions are needed for sustained cessation.

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Klesges et al. (1988) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a167167994c1ef0e34c5ceb https://doi.org/10.1037//0278-6133.7.6.575

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Prospective study reveals distinct predictors of program enrollment, dropout, and abstinence in employed smokers, indicating that tailored interventions are needed for sustained cessation.

Factors associated with participation, attrition, and outcome in a smoking cessation program at the workplace.

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Factors associated with participation, attrition, and outcome in a smoking cessation program at the workplace.

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