Light and intermittent smoking among California's Asian Americans

Tong, Elisa K.; Nguyen, Tung T.; Vittinghoff, Eric; Pérez‐Stable, Eliseo J.

doi:10.1093/ntr/ntp013

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“…It may be that demographic predictors of lower level smoking are more readily observable with greater breadth of smoking status representation. Moreover, those studies (Boulos et al;Tong et al, 2009 ) and the Levy et al study (which did assess differences between non -daily and daily light smokers) all included a larger age distribution relative to the current study. It may be that in a young adult sample, demographic differences between intermittent and light daily smokers are less salient as a result of reduced age variance, limited time since age of initiation, or a generational effect, indicating that smoking status differences are narrowing in current young adults.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Recent studies have demonstrated low-level smokers relative to moderate -heavy smokers ( Boulos et al, 2009 ;Tong et al, 2009 ) and relative to heavier light smokers ( Levy et al, 2009 ) were more often women, more highly educated, and younger (among other inconsistent demographic fi ndings). That none of the demographic predictors distinguished intermittent and light daily smokers in this study may be a result of different smoking status comparisons or the uniqueness of this military cohort relative to other studies.…”

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Differences between intermittent and light daily smokers in a population of U.S. military recruits

Cooper

Taylor

Murray

et al. 2010

Nicotine & Tobacco Research

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Discussion: Intermittent and daily light smokers differ on several tobacco-related and psychosocial variables. Attending to these factors in prevention and cessation programs may enhance abstinence in both groups. IntroductionSmoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States ( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004 ). Despite a decrease in smoking among middle-aged and older adults, young adult smoking prevalence declines are smaller, and reductions in moderate to heavy smoking have been accompanied by an increase in prevalence of light and intermittent smoking ( Pierce, White, & Messer, 2009 ). One group of young adults who demonstrate high rates of smoking are individuals serving in the military ( Bray et al., 2006 ;Nelson & Pederson, 2008 ).Two subgroups of smokers who have received growing attention ( Fiore et al., 2008 ) and have yet to be examined among military personnel are light and intermittent (i.e., nondaily) smokers. Both young adults ( Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency, 2004 ) and ethnic minorities ( Ahluwalia et al., 2006 ;Rodriguez-Esquivel, Cooper, Blow, & Resor, 2009 ;Trinidad et al., 2009 ) are predominant in the military and evidence high rates of low-level smoking. Therefore, light and intermittent smoking are likely to be especially common in this group.A pattern of maintaining low levels of smoking has multiple implications. First, relative to never smoking, even light smoking is deleterious to health such that light smokers are at increased Abstract Introduction: Few studies have assessed differences between intermittent and light smokers, particularly among young adults. Exploring these differences promotes a systematic approach to research and treatment in low-level smokers. This study explored demographic, tobacco-related, and psychosocial predictors of intermittent nondaily smoking relative to light smoking among basic military training (BMT) recruits. The impact of smoking status on abstinence rates at follow-up was also assessed.Methods: Participants were 5,603 U.S. Air Force BMT intermittent nondaily ( n = 3,134) or light daily ( n = 2,469) smoking recruits participating in a population-based group randomized trial targeting tobacco use prevention and cessation , Effi cacy of a tailored tobacco control program on long-term use in a population of U.S. military troops. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , 74,[295][296][297][298][299][300][301][302][303][304][305][306]. Participants completed baseline measures assessing demographics; tobacco use and history; and common social, attitudinal, and behavioral risk factors for tobacco use. Flights of recruits were randomly assigned to a tobacco use intervention or health education control intervention. At the 1-year follow-up, participants reported 7-day point prevalence and continuous abstinence. Results:Intermittent nondaily smoking relative to light daily smoking was associated with lesser perceived addiction, intermittent and daily use of smokeless tobacco, nonsmoking male and fe...

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Differences between intermittent and light daily smokers in a population of U.S. military recruits

Cooper

Taylor

Murray

et al. 2010

Nicotine & Tobacco Research

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“…66 One such future topic may be on light and intermittent smoking. As demonstrated in the literature 27,42 and in national guidelines, 81 racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately represented as light and intermittent smokers. This implies that a greater understanding from a biological and community/cultural perspective will be needed to treat individuals who demonstrate this behavior.…”

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“…26 California Asian Americans are lighter smokers than the general population, with these smokers more likely to be women, not Koreans, higher educated, and bilingual with high English proficiency. 27 One study described how the South Asian community uses cultural tobacco products (eg, paan, paan masala) but have little knowledge about their health harms. 30 Korean smokers in Pennsylvania had few past-year quit attempts despite most having ever tried to quit, 32 suggesting they have extenuating barriers.…”

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Working to Eliminate Cancer Health Disparities from Tobacco: A Review of the National Cancer Institute’s Community Networks Program

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Fagan²,

Cooper³

et al. 2015

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Introduction: In 2005, the National Cancer Institute funded the Community Networks Program (CNP), which aimed to reduce cancer health disparities in minority racial/ethnic and underserved groups through community-based participatory research, education, and training. The purpose of this study was to describe the CNP model and their tobacco-related work in community-based research, education, and training using a tobacco disparities research framework. Methods: We conducted a comprehensive review of the CNP tobacco-related activities including publications, published abstracts, research activities, trainee pilot studies, policy-related activities, educational outreach, and reports produced from [2005][2006][2007][2008][2009]. Two authors categorized the tobaccorelated activities and publications within the framework. Results: Although there was no mandate to address tobacco, the CNPs produced 103 tobaccorelated peer-reviewed publications, which reflects the largest proportion (12%) of all CNP cancerrelated publications. Selected publications and research activities were most numerous under the framework areas "Psychosocial Research, " "Surveillance, " "Epidemiology, " and "Treatment of Nicotine Addiction. " Thirteen CNPs participated in tobacco control policymaking in mainstream efforts that affected their local community and populations, and 24 CNPs conducted 1147 tobacco-related educational outreach activities. CNP activities that aimed to build research and infrastructure capacity included nine tobacco-related pilot projects representing 16% of all CNP cancer-related pilot projects, and 17 publications acknowledging leveraged partnerships with other organizations, a strategy encouraged by the CNP.

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“…This is a brief measure which can provide insight into factors associated with smoking behaviors (Chang, 2009;Harakeh & Vollebergh, 2012;Novak et al, 2003;Piasecki et al, 2011). The inclusion of a tri-ethnic sample in this study is an important addition to the literature; however, future studies should examine RS with other ethnic groups who possess disproportionate rates of nondaily smoking such as Asian Americans (Tong, Nguyen, Vittinghoff, & Pérez-Stable, 2009;Trinidad et al, 2009). In addition, while our study specified that participants be English speaking given that the questionnaire was in English, and the majority of the sample reported speaking English well or very well (99.6%), scale metric equivalence across ethnic groups was not evaluated.…”

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confidence: 99%