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5. The Quest to Quit: an Exploration of the Cessation - Relapse Cycle of Cigarette Smoking

Author

Neale, Jenny, el-Ojeili, Chamsy, Hooper, Carolyn May, Neale, Jenny, el-Ojeili, Chamsy, and Hooper, Carolyn May

Abstract

The smoker's perspective is seldom sought in cessation research. Consequently, cessation approaches may be less effective because they are not based on assumptions and interpretations shared by those who smoke. Understanding how chronic relapsing smokers interpret their predicament could enhance cessation approaches, improving the chances for complete, permanent cessation. To generate such an understanding, five participants were recruited who had attempted to quit smoking several times. Aiming for depth rather than breadth, multiple interviews were conducted with each participant, who also kept an event diary, recording current smoking, nicotine withdrawal, lapsing and relapsing. Narratology, a biographical method of symbolic interactionism drawing on thematic, structural, and dialogic analysis, was used to elicit the participants' points of view from interview and diary data. The findings show that participants make sense of their chronic relapsing through a master narrative of 'willpower versus weakness'. Meanwhile, the tobacco control domain is largely driven by 'cost', and subsidised treatments are driven by the 'addiction' master narrative. This gap between ways of making sense of smoking and relapse can cause self-stigma, reducing the likelihood that quitting will be attempted and that quit attempts will succeed. Changes are proposed to mitigate the negative effects on self-efficacy brought about through the present approach to tobacco control. Ways to improve the effectiveness of existing treatments are suggested. Finally, the value of the narrative method is highlighted, with suggestions for its use in research where elucidating the insider point of view may improve treatment outcomes.

Published
2009

6. Viewpoints

Author

Kevy, Robert K., House, Paul D., Solis, Eric, Galiano, August, Allen, Julius, Hooper, Carolyn Follett, and Avery, Richard

Subjects
General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Published
2003

8. DEFINING "SMALL BUSINESS" IN GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS.

Author

Hooper, Carolyn N.

Subjects
SMALL business, GOVERNMENT policy, ASSETS (Accounting), ECONOMIC development, BUSINESS size, FINANCIAL management, GOVERNMENT agencies
Abstract

The article focuses on the programs and policies by various U.S. agencies, to promote the growth and stability of small business firms and to ensure that their economic potential is fully realized. Here the describes some of the factors which must be considered in selecting a definition of small business and to trace the changes which have occurred in the government's concept of small business. In order to unitize a quantitative definition of small business, a unit of measurement and a point of division to separate large from small must be selected. The selection of the unit of measurement is extremely important, for a given business firm may fall into different categories depending upon the one selected. The difficulty inherent in all attempts to define a small business firm as one with a certain maximum dollar volume of total assets or a certain maximum number of employees is that such methods do not take into consideration the fact that small is a relative term and that industries differ widely with respect to the typical size and number of firms.

Published
1972

9. Assessment of self-reported parenting practices with the home environment profile-abbreviated form : comparing parents of children with and without disabilities

Author

Hooper, Carolyn Wade

Abstract

This study examined the differences in self-reported parenting practices between parents of children with and without disabilities. These differences were investigated using the Home Environment Profile-Abbreviated Form (HEP-AF; Dickinson, 2001). The HEP-AF measures self-reported parenting practices in the areas of Nurturing, Monitoring, Discipline, and Modeling Attitudes and Behaviors. (These areas make up the subscales of the HEP-AF.) The research sample consisted of 308 parents of 4th through 8th grade students. Fifty-two parents reported that their child had a disability; 256 parents reported that their child did not have a disability. The results from multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) indicated that student group (nondisabled students/students with a disability) had a statistically significant effect on the multivariate combination of parenting practices, after controlling for the effect of parent income and education level. Univariate analyses of covariance (ANCOVAs) were subsequently conducted and, while controlling for the effect of parent income and education, indicated a significant effect with the parenting practices of Monitoring, Discipline and Modeling Attitudes and Behaviors (Modeling). A comparison of the adjusted means between groups indicated that parents of children with a disability scored significantly lower (less desirable) than parents of nondisabled children on the subscales of Monitoring, Discipline, and Modeling. Scores on the Nurturing subscale were not different between groups. Significant differences between groups were also found for the Total Scale and a number of specific HEP-AF items with the parents of children with a disability scoring lower (less desirable) than parents of nondisabled children.

Published
2002

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