Do Daily Compensatory Health Beliefs Predict Intention to Quit and Smoking Behavior? A Daily Diary Study during Smoking Cessation

Melanie A. Amrein, Janina Lüscher, Corina Berli, Theda Radtke and Urte Scholz
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Melanie A. Amrein: Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Binzmuehlestrasse 14, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland
Janina Lüscher: Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Binzmuehlestrasse 14, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland
Corina Berli: Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Binzmuehlestrasse 14, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland
Theda Radtke: School of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University; Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 45, 58455 Witten, Germany
Urte Scholz: Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Binzmuehlestrasse 14, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 17, 1-13

Abstract: Compensatory health beliefs (CHBs) are a means to cope with motivational conflicts between intended health goals and the temptation for an unhealthy behavior. As CHBs can fluctuate on a daily basis, this study examined how daily CHBs are associated with daily intention to quit smoking and daily number of cigarettes smoked before and after a quit date at the between- and within-person level. The study comprised a prospective longitudinal design and investigated 83 women and 83 men for 32 consecutive days during an ongoing joint self-set quit attempt. Daily CHBs varied from day to day and between individuals. At the between-person level, higher women’s mean CHBs were associated with lower intention ( b = −0.23, p = 0.04) and at the 10% level with more cigarettes smoked after the quit date (rate ratio (RR) = 1.92, p = 0.07). At the within-person level, women’s higher than usual CHBs were unrelated to intention to quit, but were related to less smoking before (RR = 0.96, p = 0.03) and at the 10% level after the quit date (RR = 0.91, p = 0.09). A marginally positive association between daily CHBs and smoking at the within-person level emerged for men. The negative effect of daily CHBs at the between-person level on smoking seems to unfold after the quit attempt and for women only.

Keywords: compensatory health beliefs; smoking cessation; intention; ecological momentary assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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