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What People Talk About When They Talk About Quitting by Greg Wadley; Wally Smith; Bernd Ploderer; Jon Pearce; Sarah Webber; Mark Whooley; Ron Borland is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is What People Talk About When They Talk About Quitting about?

As part of an ongoing project to explore the design of behaviour-change technology for smoking cessation, we analysed a successful community who come together on the popular Reddit website to discuss quitting and to encourage each other's quit attempts. We found that users remain anonymous but identify according to their quit stage. We examined the form and content of posts, finding that narratives about people and events are more common than other rhetorical forms. Many speak of ongoing struggles with quit attempts. Our analysis reveals forms of sociality spontaneously enacted in a selfmanaged community of quitters. We compare our results with earlier work on social media and behaviour change.

Author

Greg Wadley; Wally Smith; Bernd Ploderer; Jon Pearce; Sarah Webber; Mark Whooley; Ron Borland

Publisher

ACM

Published

2014

Language

EN