EFFECT OF EVALUATIVE CONDITIONING ON ATTITUDES OF SMOKERS TOWARDS SMOKING BEHAVIOUR THE MODERATING ROLE OF SELF-EFFICACY

📄 Project Abstract

Any behaviour that affects human health directly or indirectly attracts the attention of people, government, and even the society at large. Among these behaviours is cigarette smoking behaviour. Smoking behaviour is a practice of taking tobacco substance which is absorbed into the blood stream and harm virtually all parts of the body. This substance is inform of dried leaves of the tobacco plant which have been rolled into a small square of rice paper to create a small round cylinder called a cigarette. Medical dictionary defined smoking as the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco encased in cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Historically, smoking has been as old as 5000 BC when it was practiced in ancient civilization cities such as the Babylonians, Indians and Chinese, where it was burnt as incense during Shamans rituals and was later adopted for pleasure (Robicsek, 1978). In shamanistic rituals, smoking of tobacco or other various hallucinogenic drugs were used to trances and to ...