Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of American College Health

Publisher

Routledge

Publication Date

2006

Volume

55

Issue

3

Disciplines

Public Health

Abstract

Social smoking is a newly identified phenomenon in the young adult population that is poorly understood. We investigated differences in social smoking (smoking most commonly while partying or socializing) and other smoking within a convenience sample of college smokers (n = 351) from a large midwestern university. Results revealed that 70% of 351 current (past 30-day) smokers reported social smoking. No significant difference was found in motivation to quit between smoking groups. However, a significant difference was found between groups in confidence to quit, the number of days smoked, and the number of cigarettes smoked on those days. More social smokers than expected did not perceive themselves as smokers. Logistic regression analysis revealed that lower physical and psychological dependence and higher social support scores predicted social smoking.

Keywords

smoking, students, universities

DOI

10.3200/JACH.55.3.133-139

Comments

This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Journal of American College Health 2006, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3200/JACH.55.3.133-139

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©2006 Routledge

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