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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2021 Apr 1;35(7):778–787. doi: 10.1037/adb0000720

Table 1.

Relationship Between In-Session Client Language and Quitting Outcomes Aggregated Across 3 & 6 Month Follow-Up

Change Talk (CT)
Learning Talk (LT)
No Yes p No Yes p
M ± SD M ± SD OR [95% CI] M ± SD M ± SD OR [95% CI]
Binary Outcomes
Quit Attempts a 0.51 ± 0.048 0.74 ± 0.050 3.00 0.001 [1.55,5.81] 0.49 ± 0.053 0.72 ± 0.046 2.96 0.001 [1.57,5.59]
Cessation Medication Use a 0.24 ± 0.041 0.43 ± 0.056 2.42 0.007 [1.27,4.61] 0.24 ± 0.046 0.39 ± 0.050 2.11 0.025 [1.10,4.06]
Abstinence (Self Report) b 0.09 ± 0.028 0.14 ± 0.040 1.70 0.267 [0.67,4.32] 0.05 ± 0.023 0.18 ± 0.039 4.60 0.008 [1.48,14.33]
p p
Continuous Changes Scores d [95%CI] d [95%CI]


Motivation to Quit 3.09 ± 3.02 3.87 ±2.64 0.28 0.046 [0.01,0.56] 2.66 ± 2.70 4.10 ± 2.90 0.50 0.001 [0.23,0.78]
Confidence to Quit 2.52 ± 3.14 3.63 ±3.23 0.36 0.014 [0.08,0.64] 2.40 ± 3.01 3.50 ± 3.32 0.35 0.013 [0.08,0.63]

Note: Significant client language effects denoted with bold face (p<0.05). M = mean, SD = standard deviation, OR = odds ratio, CI = confidence intervals, d = standardized mean difference = standardized beta coefficient for the multivariate model: outcome ~ change talk + learn talk. CT & LT coded (0,1) and analyzed using generalized linear modeling, function glm(), in the R statistical platform. Measures defined in the text.

a

Any quit attempt made during follow-up, n= 107 & 78 for CT and 88 & 97 for LT.

b

Based only on last follow-up; n=106 & 76 for CT and 87 & 95 for LT