Centre for Health Psychology, Staffordshire University, Staffordshire, UK.
Health Psychol. 2011 Nov;30(6):805-9. doi: 10.1037/a0024745. Epub 2011 Jul 18.
To investigate whether exposure to a smoking-related facial age-progression technique impacts on quit smoking cognitions, nicotine dependence, and self-reported and objectively assessed smoking in young women in a randomized controlled trial.
eighteen- to 34-year-old women smokers (n = 70) were allocated at random to either an appearance-related intervention (plus usual care) or control (usual care) group. Women completed questionnaires assessing attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and intention to quit smoking immediately before, immediately after, and four weeks after receiving the intervention or usual care. At the first and last time points they also completed measures of nicotine dependence and self-reported and objectively assessed smoking (breath carbon monoxide levels).
The two groups were well matched at baseline. Using intention to treat analyses and baseline as a covariate, women in the appearance-related intervention group compared to the control group had significantly more positive attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intentions to quit smoking immediately after exposure. Only the effects on quit smoking attitudes remained significant at four weeks postintervention. Nicotine dependence and self-reported smoking (total cigarettes in last seven days), but not objective smoking, were significantly lower in the intervention compared with control group at four weeks.
This study suggests that an appearance-related smoking intervention may be a useful adjunct to traditional cessation programs with young women smokers.
在一项随机对照试验中，调查接触与吸烟相关的面部年龄增长技术是否会影响年轻女性的戒烟认知、尼古丁依赖以及自我报告和客观评估的吸烟情况。
将 18 至 34 岁的女性吸烟者（n = 70）随机分配到与外貌相关的干预组（加常规护理）或对照组（常规护理）。女性在接受干预或常规护理之前、之后立即以及四周后完成评估吸烟态度、主观规范、感知行为控制和戒烟意愿的问卷。在第一次和最后一次时，她们还完成了尼古丁依赖以及自我报告和客观评估的吸烟（呼气一氧化碳水平）的测量。
两组在基线时匹配良好。使用意向治疗分析和基线作为协变量，与对照组相比，接触与外貌相关的干预组的女性在接触后立即表现出更积极的态度、主观规范、感知行为控制和戒烟意愿。只有戒烟态度的影响在干预后四周仍然显著。与对照组相比，干预组在四周时尼古丁依赖和自我报告的吸烟量（过去七天内吸烟的总支数）显著降低，但客观吸烟量没有显著降低。
这项研究表明，与年轻女性吸烟者的传统戒烟计划相比，与外貌相关的吸烟干预可能是一种有用的辅助手段。
