Identification of adolescents at risk for smoking initiation: Validation of a measure of susceptibility☆
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2023, Preventive MedicineCitation Excerpt :Susceptibility predicted smoking initiation above and beyond other known risk factors such as peers' smoking and access to cigarettes.( Pierce et al., 1996; Unger et al., 1997) Subsequent research with adolescents in 2014–2016 found that susceptibility to each of four tobacco products predicted use of that product 16 months later, suggesting that susceptibility measures can be adapted for different products.( Barrington-Trimis et al., 2019) Thus, susceptibility may be a good marker of the relative risk of use of specific nicotine and tobacco products in the coming years.
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2019, Addictive BehaviorsCitation Excerpt :Each one unit increase in sensation seeking score at baseline was associated with 1.35 times higher odds of becoming susceptible to e-cigarettes 12 months in the future (p = 0.04). Most studies to date have considered the applicability of the susceptibility construct in predicting future tobacco product use, and in particular cigarette use (Jackson et al., 1998; Jackson & Dickinson, 2004; Pierce et al., 1996; Pierce et al., 2005; Unger et al., 1997), while only a handful of studies have identified risk factors associated with being susceptible to use (e.g., Wilkinson et al., 2008). Less research is available on predictive factors as they relate to the transition from non-susceptible to susceptible status among adolescents (Prokhorov et al., 2002) and none on this transition as it relates to e-cigarette use.
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2018, Addictive Behaviors ReportsCognitive risk factors of electronic and combustible cigarette use in adolescents
2018, Addictive BehaviorsCitation Excerpt :Understanding proximal risk factors that may predispose adolescents to e-cigarette use is critical to address rapidly changing use patterns. Among adolescent never-smokers, cognitive susceptibility to cigarette smoking (i.e., endorsing high-risk cognitions such as intentions, expectations, or willingness to smoke cigarettes in the future), is a significant predictor of subsequent cigarette initiation; it has been shown to identify teens with a twofold risk of smoking initiation (Choi, Gilpin, Farkas, et al., 2001; Gritz, Prokhorov, Hudmon, et al., 2003; Jackson, 1998; Unger, Johnson, Stoddard, et al., 1997). Although cognitive smoking susceptibility has been well-studied in relation to cigarette initiation in youth, how it may relate to subsequent e-cigarette initiation is unknown.
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2018, Drug and Alcohol DependenceCitation Excerpt :‘Susceptibility to smoking’ – the absence of a firm commitment not to smoke − is thought to be a key proximal mediator of smoking initiation risk that is malleable and, therefore, amenable to intervention to prevent initiation (Choi et al., 2001). A composite measure of susceptibility to smoking initiation, initially developed in the early 1990s, has included questionnaire items assessing intention to smoke and willingness to smoke if offered by a friend (Choi et al., 2001; Jackson, 1998; Pierce et al., 1996; Unger et al., 1997) and more recently, curiosity about smoking (Nodora et al., 2014; Pierce et al., 2005; Strong et al., 2014). This research has aimed to identify youth at risk of initiating cigarette use (i.e., those cognitively susceptible to smoking initiation [for example, not protected from social influences to smoke] but who have not yet initiated use).
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Data collection for Project SMART was supported by Grant 1-R18-DA030496 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The first author was supported by a National Cancer Institute predoctoral fellowship during preparation of this article.