Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Substance Use & Misuse

Publisher

Informa Healthcare

Publication Date

2011

Volume

46

Issue

8

Disciplines

Public Health

Abstract

Many who smoke in college do so infrequently and smoking conditions are not well-understood. We examined smoking patterns among college fraternity and sorority members (N=207) from a Midwestern university in three successive fall semesters in 2006–2008. Participants completed calendar-assisted retrospective assessments of 30-day smoking at up to 5 assessment points over 96 days. Overall smoking rates declined over the course of each semester and higher smoking on weekends was observed, with more variability among daily smokers. The most frequent categories of events to cue recall of smoking were socializing, work, and school. Findings can be used to target prevention efforts.

Keywords

smoking, college students, patterns, Timeline Follow-Back, non-daily smoking, daily smoking

DOI

10.3109/10826084.2010.543746

Comments

The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at Substance Use & Misuse

Rights

©2011 Informa Healthcare

Download

Included in

Public Health Commons

Share

COinS