Desire versus efficacy in smokers' paradoxical reactions to pictorial health warnings for cigarettes.

Pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs create aversive emotional reactions to smoking and induce thoughts about quitting; however, contrary to models of health behavior change, they do not appear to alter intentions to quit smoking. We propose and test a novel model of intention to quit an add...

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Main Authors: Daniel Romer, Ellen Peters, Andrew A Strasser, Daniel Langleben
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3558430?pdf=render