Pathways to Smoking Cessation Among African American and Puerto Rican Young Adults

Marcus, Stuart G.; Pahl, Kerstin; Ning, Yuming; Brook, Judith S.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2006.101212

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“…; and 3) How many cigarettes do you smoke? Answer options for each measure included: (1)“None,” (2) “A few cigarettes or less a week,” (3) “1–5 cigarettes a day,” (4) “About half a pack a day,” (5) “About one pack a day,” (6) “About one and a half packs a day,” and (7) “More than one and a half packs a day” (Marcus et al, 2007). …”

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Familial and non-familial smoking: Effects on smoking and nicotine dependence

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Saar

Zhang

et al. 2009

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background-This study examined the relative impact of familial and non-familial smoking on participant smoking and nicotine dependence.Methods-This is a longitudinal study of 838 African American and Puerto Rican participants who were interviewed four times in their homes over a 15-16-year period (1990, 1994-1996, 2000-2001, and 2004-2006).Results-Parental smoking during adolescence had a direct positive path to peer smoking during adolescence, which in turn had a direct positive path to participant smoking during the mid-twenties. In addition to the direct path between participant smoking in the mid-twenties and participant nicotine dependence during the late twenties, there was an indirect effect mediated by partner's problems resulting from smoking during the late twenties.Conclusions-This research demonstrates the key role the social environment plays in smoking and nicotine dependence. Both familial and non-familial smoking were significantly related to smoking and nicotine dependence. Public health implications suggest the importance of targeting prevention and treatment policies based on the participants' stage of development. During adolescence the focus should be on parental and peer smoking, whereas during the twenties attention might be paid to their own smoking and that of their partners.

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Familial and non-familial smoking: Effects on smoking and nicotine dependence

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Saar

Zhang

et al. 2009

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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“…Research has found that aspects of unconventionality are associated, primarily cross-sectionally, with less smoking cessation (Brook, Ning, & Brook, 2006; Marcus, Pahl, Ning, & Brook., 2007). Research supports paths from parents’ smoking to their adolescents’ psychological adjustment and to cessation (Chassin, Presson, Pitts, & Sherman, 2000).…”

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Adolescent Attributes and Young Adult Smoking Cessation Behavior

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Zhang

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Substance Use & Misuse

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This study collected data five times between 1983-2002 from 400 participants who originally came from upstate New York. These participants completed structured interviews as did their mothers three times. LISREL analysis generally supported the hypothesized model. The results indicated that having parents who smoked and having low educational aspirations and expectations were associated with being unconventional, which, in turn, was related to having low emotional control and reporting more internalizing behaviors. Internalizing behaviors were directly associated with a lower likelihood of smoking cessation, as was parental smoking. Research and clinical implications are discussed and the limitations noted.

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“…In recent years, we have applied FIT conceptions to predicting tobacco use in adulthood. We have used FIT in analyses designed to assess the developmental pathways with regards to predictors of cigarette use and smoking cessation 22, 23. FIT has served as an organizing perspective for our results as we have reliable measures of parental bonding, internalizing and externalizing behaviors, and their developmental stability.…”

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Psychosocial Antecedents and Adverse Health Consequences Related to Substance Use

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Objectives-This study examined early psychosocial precursors (internalizing behaviors and parent-child bonding) of adult tobacco use, alcohol, and other drug-related problems and later adverse health consequences.Methods-A community-based sample of 502 participants were interviewed over a 22-year period (1983, 1985-1986, 1997, 2002, and 2005).Results-There is a strong relationship between later adolescent internalizing behaviors and later adverse health consequences in adulthood. Later adolescent internalizing behaviors serves as a mediator between low parent-child bonding in earlier adolescence and later adverse health consequences. Tobacco use, alcohol, and other drug-related problems in the late 20s and early 30s are directly related to later adverse health consequences and indirectly as mediators between earlier psychosocial difficulties and later adverse health consequences.Conclusions-Public health and clinical implications suggest the importance of creating policies and programs and providing treatment that target parent-child bonding and internalizing behaviors in order to reduce tobacco use, alcohol, and other drug-related problems, and ultimately, later health problems.

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Pathways to Smoking Cessation Among African American and Puerto Rican Young Adults

Abstract: The results suggest that a positive relationship with one's parents, less smoking in the family, conventional personality attributes, and little or no other substance use facilitate smoking cessation among young adults.

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Familial and non-familial smoking: Effects on smoking and nicotine dependence

Familial and non-familial smoking: Effects on smoking and nicotine dependence

Adolescent Attributes and Young Adult Smoking Cessation Behavior

Psychosocial Antecedents and Adverse Health Consequences Related to Substance Use

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