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Title Page • Why People Smoke |
Why Do You Smoke? Test The test includes statements made by people who describe what they get out of smoking cigarettes. Take the test by answering - always, frequently, sometimes, seldom, or never - about how often you feel the same way when smoking? About Your Score The six factors measured by this test describe different ways of experiencing or managing certain kinds of feelings. Three of these feelings-states represent the positive feelings people get from smoking: a sense of increased energy or stimulation; the satisfaction of handling or manipulating things; and the enhancing of pleasurable feelings accompanying a state of well-being. The fourth is the decreasing of negative feelings by reducing a state of tension or feelings of anxiety, anger, shame, etc. The fifth is a complex pattern of increasing and decreasing "craving" for a cigarette, representing a psychological addiction to smoking. The sixth is habit smoking, which takes place in an absence of feeling-purely automatic smoking. A score of 11 or above on any factor indicates that this factor is an important source of satisfaction for you. The higher your score (15 is the highest), the more important a particular factor is in your smoking and the more useful the discussion of that factor can be in your efforts to quit. Credit: Why Do You Smoke? National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Publication No. 92-1822, Reprinted January 1992 |
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