id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 5t34sj1566h Quinn S. Bastian Can People Choose Not to Smoke? A Study of Volitional Self-Control, Self-Efficacy, and Cigarette Use 2004 .txt text/plain 155 7 31 Self-ratings of effort were found to mediate the effects of volitional instructions on smoking behavior, providing further support for an agentic (versus mechanistic) interpretation of volition effects. Following Howard and Conway's (1986) volitional instruction paradigm, the present study examined whether participants could willfully control their cigarette use. cache/5t34sj1566h.txt txt/5t34sj1566h.txt