Dawning Dependence: Processes underlying smoking cessation in adolescence
Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: During adolescence young people are known to try out a range of risk behaviours,\nincluding smoking. Even though the detrimental health consequences of smoking are well\nknown, the prevalence of smoking among Dutch adolescents remains high. Until today,\nefforts to control adolescent smoking are mainly focused on the prevention of smoking,\nwhereas fewer efforts are made towards facilitating smoking cessation. Since the chance\nof a successful attempt to cease smoking diminishes the longer that people smoke, it is\nimportant that cessation interventions also focus on adolescents. However, compared to\nthe many reports on predictors of smoking initiation, the literature addressing adolescent\nsmoking cessation is rather limited, and the field is still considered to be underdeveloped.\nTo facilitate the planning and development of programs to promote cessation among\nadolescents who smoke, the current thesis presents a number of studies that focus\non identifying and studying potential determinants of smoking cessation, as well\nas determinants of important parameters of successful cessation such as readiness\nto quit smoking and undertaking quit attempts. Multiple levels of influence on the\nprocess of adolescent smoking cessation are considered and tested, including addiction,\npsychological and environmental factors. In addition, predictions and assumptions of\nseveral theories that are frequently used in explaining health behaviour, such as the\nTranstheoretical Model and Social Cognitive Theory, were tested in their applications to\nadolescent smoking cessation.
Author: Marloes Kleinjan
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1516678351