Cigarette use trajectories in young adults: Analyses of predictors across system levels.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Cigarette smoking escalates most in early to middle young adulthood. However, little research has examined a range of multilevel factors in relation to smoking trajectories during this time. METHODS:We examined: 1) trajectories of cigarette smoking among 2967 US college students (aged 18-25) in a two-year, six-wave longitudinal study (using growth mixture modeling); and 2) intrapersonal- (i.e., other substance use, depressive symptoms, ADHD symptoms,); interpersonal- (i.e., adverse childhood events, social support, parental tobacco and marijuana use), and community-level (i.e., type of college, rural vs. urban setting) predictors of differing trajectories (using multinomial logistic regression). RESULTS:We identified three trajectory classes: 1) Dabblers, who used cigarettes at

SUBMITTER: Berg CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6819815 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature