PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND SMOKING CESSATION BEHAVIORS AMONG SMOKERS WHO HAVE AND HAVE NOT EVER TRIED TO QUIT

Relationships between smoking cessation behaviors and demographic char acteristics and attitudes were analyzed among two groups of smokers, t hose who had and had not ever tried to quit, Telephone interviews were completed with 1501 smokers at baseline and at a 3 month follow-up, M ultiple logistic regression analyses were used to identify factors tha t were associated with planning to quit, attempting to quit and quitti ng smoking within the two groups of smokers, Different patterns of cor relates were found across groups and within the three outcome measures , indicating the potential importance of targeting interventions accor ding to whether or not smokers have made a prior quit attempt, These f indings also support the value of using multiple outcome measures in t he smoking cessation process.