Three-month effects of Project EX: A smoking intervention pilot program with Korean adolescents

Sheila Yu; Artur Galimov; Steve Sussman; Goo Churl Jeong; Sung Rae Shin

Addictive Behaviors Reports (Jun 2019)

Three-month effects of Project EX: A smoking intervention pilot program with Korean adolescents

Sheila Yu,
Artur Galimov,
Steve Sussman,
Goo Churl Jeong,
Sung Rae Shin

Affiliations

Sheila Yu: Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9239, USA
Artur Galimov: Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9239, USA
Steve Sussman: Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2001 N Soto St., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9239, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, 3620 South McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA; School of Social Work, University of Southern California, 669 W 34th St, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0411, USA; Correspondence to: S. Sussman, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, USA.
Goo Churl Jeong: Sahmyook University, Department of Counseling Psychology, 815 Hwarang-ro, Gongneung 2(i)-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Sung Rae Shin: Sahmyook University, Department of Nursing, 815 Hwarang-ro, Gongneung 2(i)-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul, South Korea; Correspondence to: S.R. Shin, Department of Nursing, Sahmyook University, South Korea.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9

Abstract

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Despite current prevention and cessation efforts, adolescent smoking remains a pressing issue worldwide, including in Korea. The current study evaluates Project EX-Korea, a teen tobacco use cessation program, three months after baseline. The quasi-experimental trial intervention involved 160 smokers in 10th to 12th grade, 85 from the program condition schools and 75 from the control. At three-month follow-up, the intent-to-treat (ITT) quit rate in the program group (30.2%) was 3.6 times that of the rate in the standard care control group (9.2%; p < 0.05). Among those who did not quit, those in the program group smoked less on average than those in the control group, but there was no difference in follow-up mFTQ scores between the two non-quitter groups. As teen tobacco use cessation programming is much needed in Korea, Project EX is a plausible program to implement among Korean adolescents. Keywords: Tobacco, Smoking cessation, Project EX, Korea

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ISSN: 2352-8532 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology; Social Sciences: Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
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