Does Effectiveness of Adolescent Smoking-Cessation Intervention Endure Into Young Adulthood? 7-Year Follow-Up Results from a Group-Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Hutchinson Study of High School Smoking was the first randomized trial to show effectiveness of a smoking cessation intervention on 6-months prolonged smoking abstinence at one year post-intervention in a large population-based sample of adolescent smokers. An important question remains: Do the positive effects from teen smoking cessation interventions seen at up to 12 months post-intervention endure into young adulthood? This study examines for the first time whether such positive early effects from teen smoking cessation intervention can endure into young adulthood in the absence of additional intervention.

Methods

High school smokers (n = 2,151) were proactively recruited into the trial from fifty randomly selected Washington State high schools randomized t

SUBMITTER: Peterson AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4734743 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature