Your choice of motivational interviewing (MI) is perfect for your research study because Motivational interviewing is widely used to help people to stop smoking (Lindson-Hawley, Thompson, Begh, 2015). MI has been documented to be more helpful in assisting people to quit smoking than brief advice or usual care when the MI is provided by general practitioners or by trained counselors (Lindson-Hawley, et al., 2015). There are five main principles of MI: expressing empathy through reflective listening; presentation an inconsistency between patients' goals or principles and their current behaviors; evading argument and direct confrontation; adjusting to patients' struggle instead of contrasting it directly; and supporting self-efficacy and hopefulness.
