[Dissonance] Peretti-Watel et al. (2007)

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_Référence complète :_
Peretti-Watel, P., Hlafen, S., & Grémy, I. (2007). Risk denial about 
smoking hazards and readiness to quit among French smokers: An 
exploratory study. /Addictive Behaviors, 32/(2), 377-383.

_Résumé :
_In most developed countries, a significant part of the population is 
still smoking despite comprehensive tobacco control policies. Among 
other reasons, many smokers may endorse self-exempting beliefs that help 
them to deny the smoking hazards for themselves. We investigated the 
relationship between smokers' risk denial and their readiness to quit 
making use of a French cross-sectional survey conducted in the Paris 
Ile-de-France Region (N = 939 smokers). Self-exempting beliefs were 
quite widespread among participants and two of them were significant 
predictors of a low readiness to quit: considering that one's cigarette 
consumption is too low to be harmful and believing that one's way of 
smoking can protect from smoking-related diseases. Future tobacco 
control messages and interventions should specifically address these 
self-exempting beliefs that reduce smokers' cognitive dissonance and 
then inhibit their willingness to quit.

_Mots-Clés :
_risk denial; smoking hazards; readiness; intention to quit; French 
smokers; smoking cessation
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