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

• Published in: Addictive behaviors Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 1094 - 1098
• Main Authors: Sussman, Steve, Dent, Clyde W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.05.2007; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Acculturation; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior - psychology; Adult; Age Distribution; At risk youth; Attitude to Health; Behavior; California - epidemiology; California - ethnology; Cessation; Cigarettes; Employment; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Health Education; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Morals; Motivation; Peer Group; Psychiatry; Self-initiated; Sex Distribution; Smoking; Smoking - epidemiology; Smoking - ethnology; Smoking - psychology; Smoking cessation; Smoking Cessation - ethnology; Smoking Cessation - methods; Smoking Cessation - psychology; Studies; California; Cessation; Self-initiated; Smoking
• ISSN: 0306-4603; 1873-6327
• DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2006.06.033

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.