Smoking Cessation Partnership Program

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The paper discusses that in 1998 the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a 27.8% increase in smoking among college students over the previous four years, from 22.3% to 28.5% of the college student population. The paper explains how today, many campuses are creating smoking cessation websites and assistance groups. This paper presents an analysis of such a website, as well as a literature review of 5 articles pertaining to smoking cessation research.

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"Evidence from recent large surveys of college student (aged 18 to 22) in North America indicates that this population is taking up smoking at an alarming rate (Murphy-Hoefer et al. 2004). Factors associated with smoking are: Peer influence. Peer smoking exerts social pressure to encourage initiation and continuation of smoking. (Niaura, Shadel, Britt, Abrams, 2002) Depression and stress. The literature suggests that depression has been found to have a strong association with cigarette smoking in college and university students."

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