Learning Objectives: Identify relationships between age of initiation, desire to quit smoking, and smoking intensity among current youth smokers within each of three uptake continuum categories
Abstract: Objective:
This presentation builds upon findings presented at the 2002 NCTOH. National Youth Tobacco Survey (2000) data were analyzed to examine age of initiation, desire to quit smoking, and smoking intensity among current smokersl. Results pointed to rerunning the analysis making differentiations among current smokers. The objective of the analysis is to re-examine these relationships among current smokers within each of three uptake continuum categories: experimenters, occasional smokers, and established smokers.
Methods:
Descriptive statistics and bivariate analysis of weighted 2002 NYTS data will yield measures of association between age of initiation, desire to quit smoking, and smoking intensity among current smokers within each of three current smoking categories. Multivariate models of the dependant variables will be constructed using the significant independent variables in the bivariate analysis.
Results:
Analysis of 2000 data showed mixed results. Some relationships were found as expected while others were not. It was theorized that this may be due to the use of current smokers overall rather than a more detailed breakdown of this variable. Thus current smokers who were experimenters, and perhaps occasional smokers, may have confounded the analysis.
Results of the current analysis will be available summer 2003 and will be presented to show the relationships between age of initiation, desire to quit smoking, and smoking intensity among current smokers within each of three uptake continuum categories.
Conclusions:
In addition to the presentation of findings, data will also be considered within the context of programmatic implications such as for the specific targeting, timing, and content of youth cessation, intervention messages, and school programs. Further, recommendations for future research will be made.
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