Smoking Cessation Treatments: What Are Young Adult Smokers Thinking?
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Quitting smoking is hard. That is why smoking cessation rates among US adult smokers have remained low over the years: in 2017 only 7 percent of smokers succeeded in quitting smoking (Babb, Malarcher, Schauer, Asman, & Jamal, 2017). Additionally, success in quitting smoking varies by race/ethnicity—only 5 percent of non-Hispanic black smokers succeeded in quitting smoking over a twelve-month period, while 7 percent of non-Hispanic white and 8 percent of Hispanic smokers succeeded in quitting smoking (Babb et al., 2017). Moreover, smokers with less education are less likely than those with more education to succeed in quitting smoking, partly because they were less likely to make quit attempts (Zhuang, Gamst, Cummins, Wolfson, & Zhu, 2015). Using evidence-based cessation treatments can make quitting smoking easier. However, only 31 percent of US adult smokers used cessation counseling and/or medication when trying to quit smoking (Babb et al., 2017).
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Danielle A. Duarte, BS, is a postbaccalaureate fellow at the Division of Intramural Research at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). She was selected for the NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program and obtained her bachelor of science in biology and psychology at the University of New Mexico.
Julia Chen-Sankey, PhD, MPP, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Division of Intramural Research at NIMHD. Dr. Chen-Sankey received her master of public policy degree in 2012 from Johns Hopkins University, and her PhD in behavioral and community health in 2018 from the University of Maryland. Her research involves investigating the influence of flavored tobacco use and tobacco marketing exposure among tobacco-naive youth and young adults.
Kathleen Dang was a summer intern at the Division of Intramural Research at NIMHD at the time of this work. She is currently an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, pursuing her bachelor’s degree with a biostatistics and global studies double major.
Leah Orozco, BA, was a summer intern at the Division of Intramural Research at NIMHD at the time of this work. She received her bachelor of arts in biology from the College of the Holy Cross. She is currently a graduate student in the master of science in biomedical sciences program at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Bambi Jewett, RN, BSN, is a research nurse and study coordinator at the Division of Intramural Research at NIMHD. Prior to joining NIMHD, she was a registered nurse at the Holy Cross Germantown Hospital ICU and research case manager RN-II at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. She received her bachelor of science in nursing from George Mason University.
Kelvin Choi, PhD, MPH, is a Stadtman investigator at the Division of Intramural Research at NIMHD. Prior to joining NIMHD, he was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology and Community Health. He received his MPH in community health education and his PhD in social and behavioral epidemiology from the University of Minnesota.
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