Predictors of smoking cessation from adolescence into young adulthood

TY - JOUR

T1 - Predictors of smoking cessation from adolescence into young adulthood

AU - Chen, Ping Hsin

AU - Pandina, Robert J.

N1 - Funding Information: Paper presented at the American Public Health Association meetings, Chicago, IL, November 1999. Preparation of this paper was supported, in part, by grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (#03295) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (#DA/AA-03395). We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. This study has been approved by the Rutgers University Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research. All participants and parents of minors signed consent forms at all four points in time.

PY - 2001

Y1 - 2001

N2 - Although smoking cigarettes is hazardous to health and cessation has positive health benefits, few smokers are able to successfully quit. The purpose of this study was to examine the predictors of smoking cessation in a nonclinical sample of 134 male and 190 female, young adult, regular (daily) smokers within a social learning and maturing-out framework. Four waves of prospective, longitudinal data from a community sample followed from adolescence into young adulthood were analyzed. Logistic regression analyses were used to test the effects of differential associations, definitions, differential reinforcement, and changes in adult role status on smoking cessation in young adulthood. Becoming married to a nonsmoker and decreases in the proportion of friends who smoked were significant predictors of cessation. Current smokers and stoppers did not differ significantly in terms of prior intensity of cigarette use or alcohol abuse/dependence. They also did not differ in terms of psychological characteristics, including depression and prior coping use of cigarettes. Social networks were more important than social roles for predicting cessation in young adulthood. Thus, smoking cessation programs should focus on social learning processes.

AB - Although smoking cigarettes is hazardous to health and cessation has positive health benefits, few smokers are able to successfully quit. The purpose of this study was to examine the predictors of smoking cessation in a nonclinical sample of 134 male and 190 female, young adult, regular (daily) smokers within a social learning and maturing-out framework. Four waves of prospective, longitudinal data from a community sample followed from adolescence into young adulthood were analyzed. Logistic regression analyses were used to test the effects of differential associations, definitions, differential reinforcement, and changes in adult role status on smoking cessation in young adulthood. Becoming married to a nonsmoker and decreases in the proportion of friends who smoked were significant predictors of cessation. Current smokers and stoppers did not differ significantly in terms of prior intensity of cigarette use or alcohol abuse/dependence. They also did not differ in terms of psychological characteristics, including depression and prior coping use of cigarettes. Social networks were more important than social roles for predicting cessation in young adulthood. Thus, smoking cessation programs should focus on social learning processes.

KW - Cessation

KW - Cigarettes

KW - Nicotine

KW - Smoking

KW - Social learning

KW - Tobacco

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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4603(00)00142-8

DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4603(00)00142-8

M3 - Article

C2 - 11456075

SN - 0306-4603

VL - 26

SP - 517

EP - 529

JO - Addictive Behaviors

JF - Addictive Behaviors

IS - 4

ER -