Smoking Cessation in Adolescents

Abstract

Interventions for inner-city adolescents who smoke should be designed to target those with the highest levels of nicotine dependence, stress, and decreased use of cognitive coping methods because they are the least likely to quit on their own, rather than developing stage-specific models.

The development of an adolescent smoking cessation intervention--an Intervention Mapping approach to planning

“…Our review of the literature on determinants of adolescent smoking cessation revealed that quitters, compared with the continuing smokers, have clearer intentions to quit smoking [12, 13], have higher self-efficacy expectations regarding quitting [12], are more likely to perceive the negative health consequences of smoking as personal relevant [14], have more academic success [15, 16], have less psychological and social problems [17], are less likely to smoke to cope with psychological problems [18, 19], smoke less [16, 18, 19], have smoked for a shorter period of time [15], are less addicted to nicotine [18, 20], associate with fewer smokers [13, 15, 16, 21] and experience more social support for cessation [17]. …”

Parenting Skills and Parent Readiness for Treatment Are Associated With Child Disruptive Behavior and Parent Participation in Treatment

“…Although not well understood with respect to parenting interventions, much research has applied health-belief and decision-making models to better understand client engagement in other domains of health care (DiClemente, Schlundt, & Gemmell, 2004;Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992;Siqueira, Rolnitzky, & Rickert, 2001). These models attempt to clarify the factors that predict a client's readiness to participate in an intervention, with consideration of personal, family, environmental, and social factors.…”

“…programs, and alcohol and drug intervention programs (DiClemente et al, 2004;Siqueira et al, 2001). In each of these domains of health care, the transtheoretical model has been valuable for understanding how to best therapeutically engage with clients, and how to best conceptualize their readiness for treatment.…”

Tobacco use among low-income housing residents: does hardship motivate quit attempts?

“…However, with more than 42 million current smokers in the United States (3), smoking cessation remains an important component of tobacco control efforts. Yet, encouraging smokers to quit is challenging as smokers may experience social cues and cravings for cigarettes,(4–6) and use cigarettes as a form of stress relief (7;8). Across the US population, the prevalence of smoking is higher among those living below the poverty line: 29% of those living below the poverty threshold are smokers compared to 16% of those living at or above the poverty threshold (3).…”