Finding better ways of motivating and assisting smokers to stop: Research at the CRUK Health Behaviour Research Centre

A major goal of Health Psychology is to find better ways of encouraging and helping people to stop doing things that are bad for their physical or mental health but which they enjoy or that meet immediate needs. For the majority of people who smoke cigarettes, stopping smoking is the change in their behaviour that would make the biggest improvement to their life-expectancy. Most smokers know this and try to stop repeatedly, but they also fail repeatedly. Table 1 summarises the problem.

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