Testing Smoking Interventions in Women

The study is a randomised controlled trial (RCT) designed to test two tailored conditions of an appearance-based intervention for smoking in female smokers, compared to a control group administered a general stop smoking intervention. The intervention delivery is being tested to assess whether the level of physiological arousal evoked by the intervention and the instruction type has an influence on the outcome measures. To do this one condition will receive the intervention with a neutral instruction and the other the intervention with additional instructions, measures of physiological stress reactivity will be used to measure level of stress evoked by the intervention and delivery.