p = .07), or cigarettes per day (β = .02, p = .74). Reverse mediation analyses revealed a similar pattern of results to the initial mediational analyses for smoking outcome expectancies (unadjusted: β [95% CI] = .092 [.041 – .155]; adjusted: (β [95% CI] = .059 [.018 – .111]) and proportion of quit attempts involving abstinence of less than one month (unadjusted only: β [95% CI] = .063 [.012 – .128]); contrary to initial mediational analyses, however, only unadjusted reverse mediation analyses were significant for smoking abstinence expectancies (β [95% CI] = .074 [.028 – .133]).
