Young People's Concepts of Smoking Addiction

This book explores how young people conceptualise addiction to smoking and, the relationship between young people's addiction beliefs and intentions to smoke cigarettes. Addiction to smoking is a major health problem, not just for adults, but also for young smokers, up to 60% of whom are dependent on nicotine. However, anti-smoking prevention efforts targeted at young people generally emphasise ill-health effects and little attention is paid to addiction education which is generally considered relevant only to adult smoking and cessation efforts. As a consequence, young people appear to have many misconceptions and unrealistic ideas about addiction, which possibly influence their initial decisions to take up smoking. Understanding these conceptions is important for anti-smoking education and may assist in the development of primary prevention and cessation intervention strategies targeted at youth populations.

Author: Calvin Wang

Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.

Publication Date: Aug 20, 2008

Number of Pages: 364 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 3639059875

ISBN-13: 9783639059878