Opportunities for Adolescent Tobacco Cessation: Developmental and Ecological Perspectives

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• 作者：Dennis W. Smith (1)
  Brian Colwell (2)
  Jay Lee (3)
  
• 关键词：Smoking cessation ; Youth ; Adolescents ; Tobacco use ; Ecological ; Developmentally appropriate program
• 刊名：Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：December 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：7
• 期：6
• 页码：453-456
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• 作者单位：Dennis W. Smith (1)
  Brian Colwell (2)
  Jay Lee (3)
  
  1. Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA
  2. Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health, 1266 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843-1266, USA
  3. Wetware Kinetics, Inc., Houston, TX, 77005, USA
  
• ISSN：1932-9563

文摘

Several distinctive factors support the argument for developmentally appropriate youth tobacco cessation programs, including the science of adolescents’ evolving brains, as well as the incidence and risks of adolescent tobacco use, and its endemic nature in adolescent milieus and culture. This paper utilizes these factors and insights from the Youth Tobacco Awareness Program (YTAP), a cognitive-behavioral adolescent tobacco cessation program, to support 5 opportunities for developmentally and ecological-based tobacco cessation programs for youth. These opportunities include the continuing need for tobacco cessation, adolescents’ desire to quit tobacco, the need for effective youth tobacco cessation strategies amid broader-based community efforts, and the support of scientific research for program effectiveness. In our experience, the conundrum of youth tobacco use has presented these opportunities for debate, research, and development of enhanced, appropriate, and more effective models of cessation delivery.