To examine effectiveness and receptivity of Project EX in another culture, where motivations for smoking and quitting may be different from those in the United States, and to provide more information for developing smoking cessation programs for Chinese adolescent smokers, a pilot test of Project EX was conducted in Wuhan, China, in 2001. The increasing smoking prevalence in Chinese adolescents in China indicates a need for effective smoking cessation programs, to stop the habit before physical consequences accumulate