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Preventing cigarette smoking with youth
The Journal of Primary Prevention, 1984A repeated measures, control group design compared skills-building with attitude modification approaches to prevent cigarette smoking of 234 sixth graders. Subjects in a skills-building condition, more than those in an attitude modification condition or in a control condition, had better posttest scores on cognitive and interpersonal precursors of ...
Lewayne D. Gilchrist, Steven P. Schinke
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Smoking Prevention and Cessation
1998The most important etiological factor in the development of lung cancer is smoking, which accounts for approximately 80 to 85% of all lung cancer cases. Tobacco use is also a major contributor to the incidence of chronic respiratory disease (80 to 90%) and myocardial infarction (23 to 40%) [1] and has been strongly correlated with other cancers (e.g ...
Philip Tønnesen +3 more
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Primary Prevention of Tobacco Smoking
Journal of School Health, 1983ABSTRACTSixth‐grade students (N = 56) were assigned randomly to one of four experimental conditions: pretest and primary prevention; primary prevention; pretest; and neither pretest nor primary prevention. In eight group sessions, primary prevention students learned facts, problem solving, decision making, self‐instructions and interpersonal skills to ...
Steven P. Schinke, Lewayne D. Gilchrist
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Smoking Cessation and Prevention
1995Tobacco smoking is the major cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), its contribution to COPD morbidity and mortality far outweighing all other factors [1]. The closeness of the association between smoking and lung disease was perhaps best shown in the study of Auerbach and colleagues [2] which found at autopsy that while almost all (94 ...
J. Foulds, M. J. Jarvis
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2008
Patterns of smoking in families and social pressure from peers have been considered as the principal determinants of the uptake of smoking by teenagers. Thus the chief focus of much of the health promotion effort to produce a new, smoke-free generation has been to equip adolescents with detailed knowledge about the dangers of smoking and skills to ...
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Patterns of smoking in families and social pressure from peers have been considered as the principal determinants of the uptake of smoking by teenagers. Thus the chief focus of much of the health promotion effort to produce a new, smoke-free generation has been to equip adolescents with detailed knowledge about the dangers of smoking and skills to ...
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Skills Methods to Prevent Smoking
Health Education Quarterly, 1986School health educators have devoted much attention to cigarette smoking. Recent years have seen the testing of interventions to prevent smoking. To date, controlled studies have not evaluated the added value of skills methods for preventing smoking. This article describes such an evaluation with sixth-grade students from two schools.
Robert F. Schilling +4 more
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The role of the pediatrician in smoking prevention
Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 1997Smoking prevention during childhood and adolescence is critical to the successful reduction of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. The research literature is replete with surveys describing youth smoking acquisition and related factors. In addition to its direct harm, tobacco use may be a gateway to other substance abuse and a
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Making Smoking Prevention a Reality
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1991Since the inception of the antitobacco movement in the late 1950s, national, state, and local public health campaigns have delayed an estimated three quarters of a million deaths from tobacco-related disease. 1 Although many lives have been saved, one in every five deaths in 1988 was smoking-related, and smoking directly caused 434 000 deaths in 1988 ...
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Smoking prevention: Obstacles and possibilities
Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, 2008A brief overview is given of the disastrous effects of tobacco smoking on health, the environment and the economy. Obstacles for prevention are exemplified by the strong addictive property of nicotine, the ruthlessness and greed of the tobacco industry, and the ambivalence still demonstrated by the political and the health professional community in the
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Preventing Smoking in Multiethnic Communities
American Journal of Health Behavior, 2001To examine community-based efforts to prevent tobacco use among adolescents, compared and contrasted to efforts conducted in schools.Review effective school-based prevention efforts including the Surgeon General's research reports describing broader based community approaches.By reducing illegal sales, making it physically more difficult to purchase ...
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