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      Motivaciones para el consumo de tabaco entre los adolescentes de un instituto urbano Translated title: Motivations for tobacco consumption among adolescents in an urban high school

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          Objetivo: Conocer las motivaciones (actitudes, creencias y experiencias) de los adolescentes para el consumo de tabaco. Método: Diseño cualitativo con videograbación de seis grupos de discusión (6-8 adolescentes, 50 minutos), curso escolar 2008/09. Muestreo intencional de adolescentes (12-18 años) de un instituto urbano de clase media (Jaén-España), usando el nivel educativo como criterio de homogeneidad y el sexo/consumo como criterio de heterogeneidad. Análisis de contenido: codificación, triangulación de categorías y obtención/verificación de resultados. Resultados: Cuarenta y cuatro adolescentes, 54% varones. Fumar relaja y mejora la imagen personal: da seguridad (chicos) y mejora las relaciones con el sexo opuesto, además de controlar el peso (chicas). La familia favorece el tabaquismo por imitación de comportamientos, aunque no lo normaliza. Los amigos constituyen un grupo de presión para el inicio/mantenimiento del consumo. El inicio de la educación secundaria marca el principio del consumo experimental. La sociedad suele normalizar el consumo y es fácil para los menores de edad comprar tabaco. Los universitarios son un modelo a seguir, con libertad para el consumo. Piden ejemplo de abstinencia a progenitores y educadores/sanitarios, dicen estar bien informados, pero recuerdan sólo mensajes impactantes. De forma unánime indican que el tabaco provoca adicción, pero de manera proporcional al tiempo de consumo; sólo les preocupan los síntomas inmediatos provocados por el tabaquismo. Los adolescentes fumadores relacionan el policonsumo con los momentos de ocio. Conclusiones: El estudio aporta motivos potencialmente útiles para mejorar la intervención antitabaco en los adolescentes. La influencia de los amigos, las actitudes parentales, la accesibilidad al tabaco y los síntomas de dependencia parecen ser los factores más relevantes.

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          Objective: To determine the motivations (attitudes, beliefs and experiences) for tobacco consumption among adolescents. Methods: This study was based on qualitative methodology using six 50-minute discussion groups with 6-8 adolescents per group during the 2008/09 school year. Purposive sampling was performed of 12-18 year-old adolescents attending a middle-class urban school (Jaén, Spain). The sample was stratified by educational level as the homogeneity criterion and gender and tobacco consumption as the heterogeneity criterion. Content analysis consisted of coding, triangulation of categories and obtaining and verifying the results. Results: There were 44 adolescents (54% male). The participants reported that smoking relaxed and improved self-image, providing security (boys) and improving relations with the opposite sex, as well as weight control (girls). The family encouraged smoking by providing a model to imitate, although many adolescents hid their smoking from their families. Friends constituted a pressure group to start or continue smoking. Starting secondary school marked the beginning of experimental use. Society tended to accept consumption and buying tobacco was easy for minors. University students were a role model and were free to smoke. The adolescents looked to their parents and educators/health workers to provide a model of abstinence and reported that they were well informed but only remembered powerful messages. Participants unanimously indicated that tobacco causes addiction, but in proportion to the duration of consumption, and were concerned only with the immediate symptoms caused by smoking. Teenage smokers associated multiple drug use with leisure time. Conclusions: This study provides useful data on motivation that could be used to improve smoking prevention interventions among adolescents. The most important factors seem to be peer influence, parental attitudes, easy access to tobacco and symptoms of dependence.

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          There is a considerable body of empirical research that has identified adolescent peer relationships as a primary factor involved in adolescent cigarette smoking. Despite this large research base, many questions remain unanswered about the mechanisms by which peers affect youths' smoking behavior. Understanding these processes of influence is key to the development of prevention and intervention programs designed to address adolescent smoking as a significant public health concern. In this paper, theoretical frameworks and empirical findings are reviewed critically which inform the current state of knowledge regarding peer influences on teenage smoking. Specifically, social learning theory, primary socialization theory, social identity theory and social network theory are discussed. Empirical findings regarding peer influence and selection, as well as multiple reference points in adolescent friendships, including best friendships, romantic relationships, peer groups and social crowds, are also reviewed. Review of this work reveals the contribution that peers have in adolescents' use of tobacco, in some cases promoting use, and in other cases deterring it. This review also suggests that peer influences on smoking are more subtle than commonly thought and need to be examined more carefully, including consideration of larger social contexts, e.g. the family, neighborhood, and media. Recommendations for future investigations are made, as well as suggestions for specific methodological approaches that offer promise for advancing our knowledge of the contribution of peers on adolescent tobacco use.
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            To extend the findings of the first Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth study by using diagnostic criteria for tobacco dependence and a biochemical measure of nicotine intake. The first study found that symptoms of dependence commonly appeared soon after the onset of intermittent smoking. A 4-year prospective study. Public schools in 6 Massachusetts communities. A cohort of 1246 sixth-grade students. Eleven interviews. Loss of autonomy over tobacco as measured by the Hooked on Nicotine Checklist, and tobacco dependence as defined in International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10). Among the 217 inhalers, 127 lost autonomy over their tobacco use, 10% having done so within 2 days and 25% having done so within 30 days of first inhaling from a cigarette; half had lost autonomy by the time they were smoking 7 cigarettes per month. Among the 83 inhalers who developed ICD-10-defined dependence, half had done so by the time they were smoking 46 cigarettes per month. At the interview following the onset of ICD-10-defined dependence, the median salivary cotinine concentration of current smokers was 5.35 ng/mL, a level that falls well below the cutoff used to distinguish active from passive smokers. The most susceptible youths lose autonomy over tobacco within a day or 2 of first inhaling from a cigarette. The appearance of tobacco withdrawal symptoms and failed attempts at cessation can precede daily smoking; ICD-10-defined dependence can precede daily smoking and typically appears before consumption reaches 2 cigarettes per day.
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              Nicotine-dependence symptoms are associated with smoking frequency in adolescents.

              Although many sociodemographic and psychosocial factors have been identified as related to adolescent smoking, few studies have examined the role of nicotine-dependence (ND) symptoms. The objective was to study the association between ND symptoms and smoking status among adolescents in the early stages of the smoking onset process. The McGill University Study on the Natural History of Nicotine Dependence is an ongoing 6-year prospective investigation of the natural history of ND among 1267 grade 7 students in ten Montreal high schools. The baseline response was 55.4%. Subjects for this cross-sectional analysis of baseline data, collected in 1999, included 241 past 3-month smokers (mean age [SD]=13.0+/-0.7 years at baseline). ND symptoms were measured in five indicators, including a measure based on the criteria for tobacco dependence in the International Classification of Diseases-10th Revision (ICD-10), the Hooked on Nicotine Checklist, and three symptom clusters (withdrawal, self-medication, and ND/cravings symptoms). The association between ND symptom indicators and each of sporadic, monthly, weekly, and daily smoking relative to less frequent smoking was investigated in multiple logistic regression analysis. Despite low cigarette exposure, 16.6% (95% confidence interval [CI], 11.9%-21.3%) of past 3-month smokers were tobacco dependent. The proportion increased from 0%, 3.1% (95% CI, 0.0%-9.2%), and 4.6% (95% CI, 0.2%-9.0%) among triers, sporadic smokers, and monthly smokers, respectively, to 19.4% (95% CI, 5.5%-33.3%) and 65.9% (95% CI, 51.9%-79.9%) among weekly and daily smokers, respectively. ND/cravings consistently distinguished each smoking category from less frequent smokers; the odds ratios (95% CI) for ND/cravings symptoms were 1.16 (0.99-1.35) in sporadic smokers; 1.17 (1.06-1.29) in monthly smokers; 1.34 (1.19-1.50) in weekly smokers; and 1.39 (1.22-1.59) in daily smokers. These data challenge current smoking onset models, which suggest that ND develops only after several years of heavy or daily smoking. ND symptoms are associated, at least cross-sectionally, with increased smoking in adolescents. To increase the likelihood of being effective, tobacco-control programs for children and adolescents will need to take early ND symptoms into account.
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                Journal
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                Gaceta Sanitaria
                Gac Sanit
                Ediciones Doyma, S.L. (Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain )
                0213-9111
                February 2012
                : 26
                : 1
                : 51-57
                Affiliations
                [01] Jaén orgnameServicio Andaluz de Salud orgdiv1Unidad de Gestión Clínica El Valle España
                [03] Jaén orgnameInstituto de Educación Secundaria Jabalcuz España
                [05] Úbeda orgnameServicio Andaluz de Salud orgdiv1Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Úbeda España
                [02] orgnameSociedad Andaluza de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria orgdiv1Grupo de Estudio del Adolescente España
                [04] Jaén orgnameUniversidad de Jaén orgdiv1Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud orgdiv2Departamento de Enfermería España
                [06] Condado orgnameServicio Andaluz de Salud orgdiv1Distrito Sanitario Condado Campiña España
                Article
                S0213-91112012000100009 S0213-9111(12)02600100009
                10.1016/j.gaceta.2011.03.021
                22047625
                d04d94b2-bdf6-4562-9507-07dcf903936e

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                : 30 March 2011
                : 15 February 2011
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                Tabaco,Adolescentes,Motivación,Grupo de discusión,Análisis cualitativo,Tobacco,Adolescents,Motivation,Discussion forums,Qualitative analysis

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