Carlo C. DiClemente

In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors.

How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article summarizes research on self-initiate...

Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change.

Transtheoretical therapy is presented as one alternative within the Zeitgeist seeking a synthesis for the increasing proliferation of therapeutic systems. From a comparative ana...

Stages of change in the modification of problem behaviors.

Decisional balance measure for assessing and predicting smoking status.

The Decisional Balance Sheet of Incentives has been proposed by Janis and Mann (1977) as a general schema for representing both the cognitive and motivational aspects of human d...

Stages of change profiles in outpatient alcoholism treatment

Self-efficacy and the stages of self-change of smoking

Patterns of Change: Dynamic Typology Applied to Smoking Cessation

Patterns of change occurring in a combined cross-sectional and longitudinal (cross-sequential) analysis of 14 variables were investigated in a two-year study of self-change appr...

Debunking myths about self-quitting: Evidence from 10 prospective studies of persons who attempt to quit smoking by themselves.

This article examines data from 10 longterm prospective studies (N > 5,000) in relation to key issues about the self-quitting of smoking, especially those discussed by Schach...

Subject characteristics as predictors of self-change in smoking

Measuring processes of change: Applications to the cessation of smoking.

Subjects (A' = 970) representing five stages of smoking cessation (precontemplation, contemplation,action, maintenance, and relapse) were given a 65-item test measuring 10 basic...

Stages and processes of self-change of smoking: Toward an integrative model of change.

An integrative model of change was applied to the study of 872 Ss (mean age 40 yrs) who were changing their smoking habits on their own. Ss represented the following 5 stages of...

Self-change and therapy change of smoking behavior: A comparison of processes of change in cessation and maintenance