Motivation to stop smoking in the German population between 2016 - 2021 and associated factors: results from a repeated cross-sectional representative population survey (German Study on Tobacco Use, DEBRA study)

Borchardt, Benjamin; Kastaun, Sabrina; Pashutina, Yekaterina; Viechtbauer, Wolfgang; Kotz, Daniel

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068198

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“… Thyrian et al (2008) compared five different countries in terms of smokers’ motivation to quit and found that the majority of smokers expressed motivation to quit (73.5%). The German Study on Tobacco Use (DEBRA) shows a slight downward trend and an overall low level of motivation to quit smoking in Germany with up to 52.4% thinking about quitting but only 24.6% with a desire to quit smoking ( Borchardt et al, 2023 ). It is recommended that smokers who are unable to quit on their own receive professional help ( Batra et al, 2022 ).…”

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Hypnotherapy compared to cognitive-behavioral therapy for smoking cessation in a randomized controlled trial

Batra,

Eck,

Riegel

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Worldwide, more than eight million people die each year as a result of tobacco use. A large proportion of smokers who want to quit are interested in alternative smoking cessation methods, of which hypnotherapy is the most popular. However, the efficacy of hypnotherapy as a tobacco cessation intervention cannot be considered sufficiently proven due to significant methodological limitations in the studies available to date. The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of a hypnotherapeutic group program for smoking cessation with that of an established cognitive-behavioral group program in a randomized controlled trial. A total of 360 smokers who were willing to quit were randomly assigned to either hypnotherapy (HT) or cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) at two study sites, without regard to treatment preference. They each underwent a 6 weeks smoking cessation course (one 90 min group session per week) and were followed up at regular intervals over a 12 months period. The primary outcome variable was defined as continuous abstinence from smoking according to the Russell standard, verified by a carbon monoxide measurement at three measurement time points. Secondary outcome variables were 7 days point prevalence abstinence during the 12 months follow up and the number of cigarettes the non-quitters smoked per smoking day (smoking intensity). Generalized estimating equations were used to test treatment condition, hypnotic suggestibility, and treatment expectancy as predictors of abstinence. The two interventions did not differ significantly in the proportion of participants who remained continuously abstinent throughout the follow-up period (CBT: 15.6%, HT: 15.0%) and also regarding the 7 days abstinence rates during the 12 months follow-up (CBT: 21.2%, HT: 16.7%). However, when controlling for hypnotic suggestibility, CBT showed significantly higher 7 days abstinence rates. In terms of the continuous abstinence rates, it can be concluded that the efficacy of hypnotherapeutic methods for smoking cessation seem to be comparable to established programs such as CBT.Clinical trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT01129999.

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