Utility of Behavioral Self-Help Manuals in a Minimal-Contact Smoking Cessation Program
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 16 (7), 1233-1239
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088109039176
Abstract
The effectiveness of 2 commercially available smoking cessation manuals was evaluated under minimal therapist contact conditions. Cigarette smokers (40, human) who volunteered to participate in a self-help quit smoking program were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: 18 to Pomerleau and Pomerleau''s 1977 manual, 13 to Danaher and Lichtenstein''s 1978 manual, and 9 to a waiting-list control. Follow-ups at 6 mo. indicate that the former manual offers a useful treatment approach, while no firm conclusions can be made regarding the latter manual. Utility of self-help manuals in multilevel treatment programs is discussed.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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