Self-changing behaviour in smoking cessation linked to trait and cognitive impulsivity.

Background And Aims: To compare impulsivity, measured using self-report and cognitive tasks in people who ceased smoking without treatment (self-changers) with each of the following groups: (i) smoking non-treatment-seekers, (ii) people in smoking cessation treatment and currently abstinent and (iii) people in smoking cessation treatment but non-abstinent.

Design: Cross-sectional, observational study.

Setting: The smoking cessation unit of a public general hospital, Hospital de Santa Maria, in Lleida, Spain.

[Health, hospitality sector and tobacco industry].

To present the strategies used by the tobacco industry to meet government regulatory measures of its products. To demonstrate the relationship between tobacco industry and the hospitality sector. Note that the arguments and strategies used routinely by the hospitality industry have been previously provided by the tobacco industry.