Research
:: GOAL 1: Increase understanding of youth and young adult tobacco experimentation, use and addiction as they relate to cessation.
Continue to identify predictors for youth and young adult tobacco-use cessation, including socio-demographic, environmental, behavioral, physiological, psycho-social, and policy influences.
Identify natural transitions where youth and young adults might be more likely to consider quitting.
Identify how multiple risk factors for youth and young adults affect cessation.
Identify how potential intermediate quitting behaviors (e.g., intention to quit, quit attempts) affect successful cessation among youth and young adults.
:: GOAL 2: Conduct research to improve understanding of policies and environments that affect youth and young adult tobacco use cessation (e.g., taxation, school policies, smoke-free air).
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Improve understanding of the effects of policies and environments on youth and young adult tobacco-use cessation behaviors, including potential intermediate quitting behaviors (e.g., intention to quit, quit attempts).
:: GOAL 3: Develop, test and evaluate tobacco-use treatment interventions (e.g., behavioral and pharmacological), programs and services for youth and young adults.
Design and evaluate strategies for recruiting and retaining youth and young adults into cessation interventions, programs and services and into all stages of treatment research, from intervention development through program evaluation.
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Continue to evaluate appeal, acceptance, efficacy and effectiveness of various types of services, support and interventions using standard program evaluation indicators.
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Identify cessation strategies that target and address the needs and preferences of youth and young adults in different segments of the population (e.g. ethnicity, education level, pregnant and post-partum, SES, age, gender, rural, urban, high-risk, etc.)
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Continue to conduct evidence-based reviews of cessation interventions, programs and services.
:: GOAL 4: Increase national, state and local surveillance of youth and young adult tobacco-use cessation, including behaviors, treatments, services and policies.
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Validate new and existing survey measures using cognitive interviewing.
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Update measures on existing survey instruments.
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Conduct surveys of youth and young adult tobacco-use cessation behaviors using validated measures.
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