Predictors of Hookah Smoking among Women in Bandar Abbas, Southern Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on the Intervention Mapping Protocol.

Conclusions: According to the present findings, changing or eliminating women's positive attitude toward HS is deemed possible through reducing the social acceptance of HS in enculturating the negative attitude in society, enhancing women's self-efficacy via purposeful and specific education on resisting hookah temptation, unraveling all factors involved in habit formation and adjusting these factors through long-term interventions and timely interventions to affect intention to consumption before the actual occurrence of behavior (HS). PMID: 32441183 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Substance Use and Misuse - Category: Addiction Tags: Subst Use Misuse Source Type: research