Five-year prospective prediction of self-initiated quitting of cigarette smoking of high-risk youth

Addict Behav. 2007 May;32(5):1094-8. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2006.06.033. Epub 2006 Jul 28.

Abstract

This paper provides a 5-year replication-extension of a previous 1-year follow-up study of the same sample of southern California alternative high school youth. Demographic, behavioral, psychosocial, and emerging adult function predictors of adolescent self-initiated smoking cessation were investigated. Based on the first (1-year) prospective study and this follow-up, one may speculate that smoking cessation programs for adolescents should include counteraction of problem-prone attitudes, assistance with job aspirations and information about drug-free workplaces, motivation to quit strategies, and assistance with overcoming withdrawal symptoms.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Acculturation
  • Adolescent
  • Adolescent Behavior / psychology
  • Adult
  • Age Distribution
  • Attitude to Health
  • California / epidemiology
  • California / ethnology
  • Employment
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Health Education
  • Humans
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Male
  • Morals
  • Motivation*
  • Peer Group
  • Sex Distribution
  • Smoking / epidemiology
  • Smoking / ethnology
  • Smoking / psychology
  • Smoking Cessation / ethnology
  • Smoking Cessation / methods*
  • Smoking Cessation / psychology