Measures and Methods

UW-CTRI researchers have developed measures, scales, methods, and codes designed to assess attributes of smokers, tobacco dependence and the process of quitting. These (below) are available for your use.

• Wisconsin Smoking Withdrawal Scale 2
  • Article
  • The Wisconsin Smoking Withdrawal Scale 2 (WSWS2-L) with the full set of 19 items are on page 1; scoring instructions are on page 2
  • The Brief Wisconsin Smoking Withdrawal Scale 2 (WSWS2-B) with 6 items are on page 1; scoring instructions are on page 2
    • Original Wisconsin Smoking Withdrawal
      • This is a 28-item scale that assesses nicotine withdrawal.
      • Article
      • Measure
      • WSWS scoring procedure
• WI-PREPARE:
  • Wisconsin Predicting Patient’s Relapse is a research tool to predict smoking release
  • Measure
• WISDM-68:
  • The Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motive is a 68-question survey designed to assess smoking dependence based on 13 sets of motives
  • WISDM Measure
  • WISDM Scoring Procedure
  • Brief WISDM Questionnaire and Scoring Procedure
• Smoking Consequences Questionnaire
  • Article on Smoking Outcome Expectancies: Factor Structure, Predictive Validity, and Discriminant Validity
  • Measure
  • Scoring Procedure
• Dr. Danielle McCarthy has published several papers on patterns of change during stop-smoking efforts. She has posted information about how to identify patterns of change in longitudinal data on behavior using Repeated Measures Latent Class Analysis (RMLCA) at this link for researchers.