Prevalence and Predictors of Transitions in Smoking Behavior Among College Students.

Abstract

The prevalence of smoking among college students is surprisingly high and represents a significant public health issue. However, there are few longitudinal studies of smoking in this population. This study examined the prevalence and predictors of transitions in smoking behavior among a cohort of 548 college students. Over the course of 4 years, 87% of daily smokers and almost 50% of occasional smokers continued to smoke. Among nonsmokers, 11.5% began smoking occasionally and none became daily smokers. In general, predictors of smoking behavior change were significant only among baseline occasional smokers and included gender, smoking outcome expectancies, and affect regulation expectations. Peer and parental smoking, demographics, affect, stress, and alcohol use were generally not predictive of change. Tobacco control interventions targeted at college students are clearly warranted.

Etiology of Food Addiction

“…[71] Çeşitli bağımlılık davranışları olan kişilerde de sigara veya alkol kullanımı-nın daha iyi hissetmelerini sağlayacağı beklentisinin alkol ve sigara kullanımın artırdığı görülmüştür. [72,73] Araştırmalarda saptanan benzer bulgular bağım-lılık davranışında önemli bir yeri olan duygusal düzenlemenin bazı yeme davranış ve bozukluklarında da gözlendiğine dikkati çekmektedir. Öte yandan araştırmacıların bir kısmı, tıkınırcasına yeme bozukluğu olan kişilerde depresyon ve anksiyete yaygınlığının yüksek olmasının olumsuz duygudurumların sıklıkla yaşanmasına ve bu olumsuz süreçlerin tıkınırcasına yeme davranışının önemli tetikçilerinden biri olabileceğini belirtmektedirler.…”

Are college student smokers really a homogeneous group? A latent class analysis of college student smokers

“…Few studies have highlighted the differences between those who smoke on a daily basis ( " daily smokers " ) and those who report smoking in the past 30 days but not every day ( " nondaily smokers " ; Hines, Fretz, & Nollen, 1998 ;Kenford et al, 2005 ;Ridner, 2005 ;Wetter et al, 2004 ). Daily and nondaily smokers vary in some factors associated with patterns of smoking.…”

“…Dimensions on which they differ include peer infl uences, smoking expectancies, harm risk beliefs, and illicit drug use. Dimensions on which they do not differ include their use of alcohol and other health risk behaviors, including marijuana use and having multiple sex partners ( Hines et al, 1998 ;Schorling, Gutgesell, Klas, Smith, & Keller, 1994 ;Sutfi n et al, manuscript under review;Wetter et al, 2004 ). Some important differences exist between nondaily and daily smokers, above and beyond quantity and frequency of smoking.…”

College students' exposure to secondhand smoke

“…Third, there has been a recent trend for college students to start smoking ( Everett et al, 1999 ;Wechsler et al, 1998 ;Wetter et al, 2004 ). This trend may stem, at least in part, from targeting of college students by the tobacco industry.…”