Department
Psychology
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Abstract
Vascular response to cigarette smoking was measured by blood flow change by utilizing a photoelectric plethysmograph in 43 subjects. All subjects took part in a smoking control program consisting of self-monitoring for a two-week period. It was hypothesized that there would be a non- linear relationship between blood flow change and various measures of success in treatment. It was also hypothesized that a combination of predictor variables including blood flow change, number of years the subject had smoked, change in heart rate following smoking, age of the subject, and pre-treatment smoking rate would successfully predict success in this smoking treatment. A significant non-linear relationship was found between blood flow change and change in the number of cigarettes smoked from the beginning of the two-week treatment period to the end of the treatment phase of the study. Significant multiple correlations were found for the relationships of the pre-treatment smoking rate and magnitude of the blood flow change with post-treatment smoking rate and the smoking rate at four weeks after treatment.
Advisor
Robert Markley
Date of Award
Spring 1981
Document Type
Thesis - campus only access
Recommended Citation
Hill, Walter, "Prediction of Smoking Treatment Outcomes Using Vascular Response" (1981). Master's Theses. 1818.
DOI: 10.58809/HIYA9869
Available at:
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/theses/1818
Rights
© 1981 Walter Hill
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