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- Title
Hooked from the first cigarette.
- Authors
diFranza, Joseph R.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the cessation of adolescents' cigarette smoking. It presents the "Hooked on Nicotine Checklist," the ten questions that measure adolescent's loss of autonomy over tobacco. The plan could help motivate adolescent smokers to quit smoking for it can open an adolescent's eye about the disadvantages of smoking. It also provides techniques on how to cease smoking by adolescents. The measure points out the avoidance of tobacco even for the first time as the only sure way to avoid addiction.
- Subjects
SMOKING cessation; ADOLESCENT smoking; ADOLESCENT health; NICOTINE addiction; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of nicotine; HEALTH of cigarette smokers; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of tobacco; TOBACCO &; health; REMOTIVATION therapy
- Publication
Journal of Family Practice, 2007, Vol 56, Issue 12, p1017
- ISSN
0094-3509
- Publication type
Article