 4. To ascertain whether nicotine-related changes in NI predict patients ability to reduce smoking, the amount of nicotine replacement therapy NRT required, and rates of quitting and smoking relapse following completion of a smoking cessation program. Hypothesis: NI will operate as a significant and unique predictor of the amount of smoking reduction and NRT use, as well as quit and relapse rates, over and above conventional predictors of smoking reduction from the general population i.e., age, marital status, coping resources, socioeconomic status, smoking related health problems, the number of cigarettes smoked per day, concomitant alcohol and coffee consumption, treatment compliance, and stage of change Matheny Weatherman, 1998; Ockene et al., 2000; Oritz et al., 2003. 