TELEPHONE COUNSELING FOR SMOKING CESSATION AMONG TEENS

减少青少年吸烟率是最重要的因素之一 美国的公共卫生问题。 国家调查显示， 一直表明，许多青少年吸烟者想戒烟，但 很少有长期的成功。 然而，目前的研究 旨在减少青少年吸烟率的努力集中在 主要是预防感染。 只有少数研究试图 帮助那些已经吸烟的青少年。 这些努力 旨在帮助青少年戒烟的努力受到了阻碍， 招募年轻吸烟者进入传统的学校或诊所 戒烟计划。 这项研究旨在证明，电话 咨询是一种特别有益于青少年吸烟者的咨询形式 因为他们天生就喜欢打电话 本研究将 检查电话咨询对青少年吸烟者的有效性， 随机设计 一个大样本（N-1，460）的青少年吸烟者谁打电话给 加州吸烟者热线将随机分为 心理咨询组和对照组 对照组将接受自我- 帮助材料和咨询小组将收到自助材料 和7次咨询，两次是在他们尝试戒烟之前， 尝试退出后的5个会话。 7期咨询方案将 使用相同结构化电话咨询协议的修改版本 对成年吸烟者有效。 显著 除了咨询方案之外， 作为一种特定的父母行为， 放弃尝试。 据推测，青少年吸烟者在咨询 戒烟成功的可能性将是那些 自助对照组（5%对10%）。 那些留下来的人的样本 12个月时的禁欲将通过唾液可替宁进行验证。

Reduction of smoking prevalence in teens is one of the most significant public health issues in the United States. National surveys have consistently shown that many teen smokers would like to quit smoking but experience little long term success. Nevertheless, current research efforts directed at reducing smoking prevalence in teens have focused primarily on uptake prevention. Only a handful of studies have attempted to help those teens who are already smoking. Those efforts that have been directed at helping teens quit smoking have been hampered by difficulty i recruiting young smokers into traditional school-based or clinic-based cessation programs. This study intends to demonstrate that telephone counseling is a particularly conductive format for counseling teen smokers because of their natural affinity for phone conversation. This study will examine the effectiveness of telephone counseling for the teen smoker using a randomized design. A large sample (N-1, 460) of teen smokers who call the California Smokers' Helpline will be randomized into telephone counseling versus a control group. The control group will receive self- help materials and the counseling group will receive self-help materials and 7 counseling sessions, two session before they make a quit attempt and 5 sessions after the quit attempt. The 7 session counseling program will use a modified version of the same structured telephone counseling protocol that has been shown to be effective with adult smokers. A significant addition to the counseling protocol is a form of parental involvement operationalized as a specific parental behavior that is yoked to the teen's quit attempt. It is hypothesized that the teen smokers in the counseling group will be twice as likely to succeed in quitting smoking than those in the self-help control group (5% vs. 10%). SA sample of those who remain abstinent at 12 months will be verified through saliva cotinine.