A Measure of Cognitive Dissonance as a Predictor of Smoking Treatment Outcome

Abstract

In an effort to determine which pre-treatment variables could serve as predictors of success in a smoking-treatment program, 213 adult volunteer smokers were assessed for a wide range of factors. A specially devised instrument, a measure of Effective Cognitive Dissonance, proved to be the variable most closely associated with end-of-treatment smoking rates.