Less Intense Urges To Smoke & Confidence In Ability To Abstain Key Factors in Ability To Quit Smoking

Among people who quit smoking and start again within one month (i.e., relapsers), the intensity of their urge to smoke never abates and their level of self-efficacy—confidence that they can abstain—was unrelated to urge to smoke upon quitting. At 24 hours after quitting, relapsers and successful quitters showed a similar positive association between urge to smoke and negative emotions, such as frustration, anger, irritation, or sadness; this association diminished over the course of two weeks for both groups. For successful quitters, their level of self-efficacy showed an expected negative association with urge to smoke. In . . .