PA subjects had significantly higher levels of confidence to stop or maintain nonsmoking and efficacy to abstain from smoking across various cues to smoke. Contemplator (C) subjects were significantly different from both PC and PA groups on these dimensions. Exactly the opposite pattern of differences emerged for levels of temptation to smoke. PC subjects were the most tempted, followed in nu- merical sequence by C and PA subjects. A simple arithmetical calculation subtracting efficacy from temptation scores for the groups indicates that the gap between confidence to abstain and overall temptation significantly narrowed and shifted across the stages. Inasmuch as this relationship between effi- cacy and temptation levels has been related to cessation of smoking (DiClemente, Prochaska, et al., 1985), this pattern dra- matically confirmed stage differences among current smokers.