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Adolescent cigarette smokers from randomly selected classrooms from 24 California and Illinois high schools were assessed regarding their interest in cessation, reasons for quitting, and smoking temptation circumstances. These data were analyzed by gender. Males and females were not found to differ in quit stage or perceived likelihood of ever quitting smoking, although males reported being somewhat more likely to have ever tried to quit in the past. The associations of reasons for quitting were not found to vary by gender in most comparisons. On the other hand, the associations of smoking temptation circumstances with gender showed that a greater percentage of females than males reported more circumstances that would make them tempted to smoke. Smoking cigarettes to regulate one's affective states, and to avoid nicotine withdrawal, may be functions of smoking that impede efforts at quitting, particularly among adolescent females.

Author

Steve Sussman; Clyde W. Dent; Elahe Nezami; Alan W. Stacy; Dee Burton; Brian R. Flay

Publisher

Informa plc; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Marcel Dekker Inc.; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 1082-6084)

Published

1998

Language

EN