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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Changing Low Income Smokers’ Beliefs About Tobacco Dependence Treatment

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Pages 852-863 | Published online: 06 Feb 2014
 

Abstract

This field study tested an intervention that challenged beliefs about the effectiveness of various quit methods held by Salvation Army client smokers from two urban locations (N = 245). Data (surveys administered immediately after and one month post-intervention) were collected 2009–2010 and analyzed using primarily χ2 and t-tests. The intervention changed client perceptions about the effectiveness of quitting methods. Compared to no-intervention controls, intervention participants reported significantly greater smoking reduction and greater likelihood of contacting the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line. Study implications/limitations are discussed and future research directions noted. This research was supported by grant UL1TR000427 from the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH.

THE AUTHORS

Bruce Christiansen, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist at the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. His current research interests include addressing tobacco use by populations with high tobacco use prevalence and high tobacco-related disease burdens, notably those with severe and persistent mental illness and/or other addictions and those living in poverty.

Kevin Reeder, M.S.W., C.S.W.M., is Divisional Social Services Director for The Salvation Army in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. His involvement in national homeless initiatives and performance outcomes has afforded him the opportunity to consult and provide workshops on these topics throughout the U.S. A peer review team leader for the Council on Accreditation, Mr. Reeder helps agencies set and maintain best practice standards for social work organizations internationally. A longtime member of National Association for Social Workers and North American Christians in Social Work, he is currently Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Network for Social Work Managers.

Michael Fiore, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and public Health. He founded and has served as Director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) since it was established in 1992. Fiore served as chair of the panel that produced the United States Public Health Service (PHS) Clinical Practice Guidelines: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence in 1996, 2000, and 2008, which provides a gold standard for healthcare providers to treat the leading preventable cause of illness and death in Wisconsin and nationwide. Dr. Fiore chaired the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Subcommittee on Tobacco Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health that produced a comprehensive plan for promoting tobacco cessation in the United States.

Timothy Baker, Ph.D., is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Associate Director for the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. His research interests concern the pharmacologic and psychosocial treatment of tobacco use, understanding the motivational bases of tobacco use and dependence, the genetics of tobacco use and dependence, and the use of novel methodologies for studying the treatment of tobacco use.

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