Previous issues of ASHES have discussed how cognitive factors might affect smoking cessation. For example, we previously described how positive attitudes toward quitting smoking were related to short-term abstinence (Schuck, Otten, Engels & Kleinjan, 2011). Today’s ASHES reviews a Chinese longitudinal study (Guo, Unger, Azen, MacKinnon, & Johnson, 2012) exploring how different reasons for smoking predict smoking initiation and progression among adolescents. Methods Researcher recruited 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th graders from 147 high schools in China. 14,434 students participated in a paper/pencil baseline survey, and 12,382 of these completed a follow-up survey one year later. Forty nine percent of...
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