title: Smoking and quitting history correlates of readiness to quit in multiethnic adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe smoking and quitting history among multiethnic adolescent smokers and examine these as correlates of readiness to quit.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were analyzed from 121 high school smokers. Sociodemographic characteristics, self-reported smoking history, number and duration of recent quit attempts, attitudes toward smoking/quitting, and readiness to quit were included.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Smoking and quitting history variables were associated with adolescents' stage of readiness to quit. A reasonably consistent pattern emerged in which those in the preparation stage were significantly different from the precontemplators and contemplators.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results are discussed in terms of interventions matched to individuals' readiness to quit.
authors.affiliation: San Diego State University, Graduate School of Public Health, 9245 Sky Park Court, San Diego, CA 92123, USA. swoodruff@projects.sdsu.edu
authors.forename: Susan I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Woodruff
authors.forename: Joann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Terry L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Conway
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D003625:Data Collection; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation