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  • Title: Comparison of the smoking behaviour and attitudes of smokers who attribute respiratory symptoms to smoking with those who do not.
    Author: Walters N, Coleman T.
    Journal: Br J Gen Pract; 2002 Feb; 52(475):132-4. PubMed ID: 11885822.
    Abstract:
    General practitioners' (GPs') advice against smoking helps smokers to stop; unfortunately, GPs cannot predict which patients will quit following advice. This postal questionnaire survey suggests that where smokers attribute their respiratory symptoms to smoking, they are eight times (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.0-23.3) more likely to believe that their health will improve if they stop smoking and six times (95% CI = 1.4-23.3) more likely to intend to stop smoking.
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