Smoking Trajectories among Koreans in Seoul and California: Exemplifying a Common Error in Age Parameterization

Allem, Jon-Patrick; Ayers, John W.; Unger, Jennifer B.; Irvin, Veronica L.; Hofstetter, C. Richard; Hovell, Melbourne F.

doi:10.7314/apjcp.2012.13.5.1851

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“…Furthermore, our focus on emerging adulthood excludes certain age groups, e.g. 26–35, which have been identified as peak ages for smoking prevalence among KA men (Allem et al, 2012). Finally, our results reflect antecedents of only a portion of LITS smokers, i.e.…”

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Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Identify Common Smoking Situations Among Korean American Emerging Adults

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The present study provides detailed contextual information about smoking habits among young Korean American smokers with the goal of characterizing situations where they are most at risk for smoking. Relevant situational factors included location, social context, concurrent activities, time of day, affective states, and food and beverage consumption. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) over 7 days, participants (N=78) were instructed to respond to smoking prompts (n=2,614) and non-smoking prompts (n=2,136) randomly scheduled throughout the day. At each prompt, participants completed a short survey about immediate contextual factors. We used multilevel models to evaluate the association between contextual factors and smoking and further explored the distribution of smoking locations and concurrent activities across each social context and reason for smoking. Compared to non-smoking events, smoking events were associated with being outside, the presence of Korean friends, socializing, consuming alcohol, and experiencing more stress relative to one’s average stress level (all p’s < 0.01). Further analyses involving only smoking events showed that when participants smoked alone, they were most commonly at home (50%) and most often studying/working (28%). When smoking with Korean friends, participants were most often outside (38%) and socializing (54%). When smoking to reduce craving, participants were most often at home (39%) and studying/working (25%). To our knowledge, this is the first study to provide detailed descriptions of real-time smoking contexts among young Korean American smokers. Information with this level of granularity is needed to develop effective just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) for smoking cessation.

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Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Identify Common Smoking Situations Among Korean American Emerging Adults

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“…Smoking inside bars decreased with age, although age and smoking may not hold a linear relationship. Among Korean males, smoking increases with age up to age 35 and then declines with age (Allem et al, 2012). …”

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Compliance with Smoke-Free Policies in Korean Bars and Restaurants in California: a Descriptive Analysis

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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…Bivariable associations between the accumulated number of role transitions and e-cigarette use were plotted using locally weighted scatter plot smoothing (lowess) as described by Cleveland (1997), and applied to tobacco-related behavior by Allem and colleagues (2012). Lowess is a desirable smoothing method because it tends to follow the data.…”

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Characteristics of emerging adulthood and e-cigarette use: Findings from a pilot study

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Introduction Emerging adults (ages 18 to 25) are more likely to use e-cigarettes compared to other age groups, but little is known about their risk and protective factors. A next step to understanding e-cigarette use among emerging adults may involve examining how transition-to-adulthood themes are associated with e-cigarette use. It may also be important to know which specific transitions, and how the accumulated number of role transitions experienced in emerging adulthood, are associated with e-cigarette use. Methods Emerging adults completed surveys indicating their identification with transition-to-adulthood themes, role transitions in the past year, and e-cigarette use. Logistic regression models examined the associations between transition-to-adulthood themes and e-cigarette use. Separate logistic regression models explored the association between individual role transitions, as well as the accumulated number of role transitions experienced, and e-cigarette use, controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity. Results Among the participants (n=555), 21% were male, the average age was 22, 45% reported lifetime, and 12% reported past-month, e-cigarette use. Participants who felt emerging adulthood was a time of experimentation/possibility were more likely to report e-cigarette use. Several role transitions were found to be associated with e-cigarette use such as loss of a job, dating someone new, and experiencing a breakup. The relationship between the accumulated number of role transitions and e-cigarette use was curvilinear. Conclusion Findings from this pilot study can be a point of departure for future studies looking to understand the risk and protective factors of e-cigarettes among emerging adults.

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Smoking Trajectories among Koreans in Seoul and California: Exemplifying a Common Error in Age Parameterization

Abstract: Immigration to a nation with a stronger anti-smoking environment has been hypothesized to make smoking less common. However, little is known about how environments influence risk of smoking across the lifecourse.

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Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Identify Common Smoking Situations Among Korean American Emerging Adults

Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Identify Common Smoking Situations Among Korean American Emerging Adults

Compliance with Smoke-Free Policies in Korean Bars and Restaurants in California: a Descriptive Analysis

Characteristics of emerging adulthood and e-cigarette use: Findings from a pilot study

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