title: Parental smoking cessation and child daily smoking: A 9-year longitudinal study of mediation by child cognitions about smoking.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study investigated to what extent the prospective relationship between parental smoking cessation and child daily smoking is mediated by child cognitions about smoking.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study drew its sample from the 40 Washington State school districts involved in the Hutchinson Smoking Prevention Project. The predictor variable of parental smoking cessation was measured during third grade. The mediator measures, consistent with the Theory of Planned Behavior and Social Cognitive Theory, were measured during ninth grade, and the smoking status outcome was measured during twelfth grade.
  
  
  METHODS
  Smoking status at twelfth grade.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Negative general attitudes toward smoking, attitude that cigarette smoke is bothersome, and tobacco refusal self-efficacy together significantly mediated 49% of the prospective relationship between parental smoking cessation and child daily smoking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Parental smoking cessation before children reach third grade may lead children to develop more negative cognitions about smoking, and, in turn, reduce their risk of smoking.
authors.affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Wyszynski
authors.forename: Jonathan B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Bricker
authors.forename: Bryan A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Comstock
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010290:Parents; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D014861:Washington / Q000453:epidemiology