You are conducting a cigarette smoking cessation program and attempt to test its effectiveness by implementing it during two social groups that includes only cigarette smokers. Each group meets on a different evening once a week for a total of six weeks; 1 group gets the smoking cessation program (Tuesday) and the other just meets to socialize (Thursday). Participants choose which group they will attend based on their availability. They can either attend the Tuesday group exclusively or the Thursday group exclusively. You administer a pre-test each of the groups prior to implementing the smoking cessation program and measure how many cigarettes they smoke daily. Upon completion of the program, you immediately administer a posttest (post-test 1) to measure number of cigarettes used each day, and measure again (post-test 2) 8 weeks later.

The design looks as follows:

Pre-test Program Post-test 1 Post-test 2

Tuesday Group O X O O

Thursday Group O O O

O = Observation/Measurement time for number of cigarettes smoked.

X = treatment/intervention groups).

Answer the following questions:

1) What type of study design are the researchers using?

2) Choose and describe a different quasi-experimental study design that would make sense in this scenario. What type of study would you design? Provide the name and draw out the experiment. Label the drawing with the information from the prompt so it's specific to the study (i.e., label the groups, intervention and any testing instances). You can draw it and take a photo.