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01-01-2003 | Therapy In Practice

Adolescent Smoking

Epidemiology and Approaches for Achieving Cessation

Authors: Professor Alexander V. Prokhorov, Karen Suchanek Hudmon, Nancy Stancic

Published in: Pediatric Drugs | Issue 1/2003

Abstract

The initiation of smoking typically occurs during adolescence. To date, most adolescent smoking control efforts have focused on prevention; attempting to identify and influence factors that contribute to experimentation and initiation. However, given the large number of adolescent smokers, it is important that effort also be directed toward facilitating cessation.

Many adolescents are addicted to cigarettes and report withdrawal symptoms that are similar to those experienced by adults. Relapse rates are high; few adolescents who try to quit on their own are successful. Clinician-delivered smoking cessation interventions have a positive impact in adults and should be applied to adolescents to promote and sustain abstinence.

Although pharmaceutical aids for cessation have been shown to be well tolerated and effective in adults, less is known about their use in adolescents. As such, clinicians are encouraged to explore whether pharmaceutical aids have been approved for use in adolescents in their country and to use discretion when considering their use in patients <18 years of age. Because pediatricians are in a unique position to facilitate tobacco cessation counseling, they should routinely ask their patients whether they use tobacco, advise users to quit, assess readiness to quit, assist with quitting, and arrange follow-up counseling. Tobacco cessation efforts can be enhanced by teaming with other health professionals (e.g. nurses, dentists, pharmacists, social workers) or worksite and community-based organizations that provide health promotion services.

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Title: Adolescent Smoking
Epidemiology and Approaches for Achieving Cessation
Authors: Professor Alexander V. Prokhorov
Karen Suchanek Hudmon
Nancy Stancic
Publication date: 01-01-2003
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Pediatric Drugs / Issue 1/2003
Print ISSN: 1174-5878
Electronic ISSN: 1179-2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2165/00128072-200305010-00001

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