ArticleAmerican journal of public health1996
Occasional smoking in a Minnesota working population.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Light and intermittent cigarette smokers: a review (1989-2009).Psychopharmacology · 2009Pooled it
- The feasibility of smoking reduction: an update.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2005Pooled it
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- Does Smoking Intensity Predict Cessation Rates? A Study of Light-Intermittent, Light-Daily, and Heavy Smokers Enrolled in Two Telephone-Based Counseling Interventions.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Trial
- Using the text-messaging program SmokefreeTXT to support smoking cessation for nondaily smokers.Substance use & misuse · 2019Trial
- Novel incentives and messaging in an online college smoking intervention.American journal of health behavior · 2014Trial
- Counseling nondaily smokers about secondhand smoke as a cessation message: a pilot randomized trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Trial
- Use frequency and symptoms of nicotine dependence among adolescent E-cigarette users: Comparison of JUUL and Non-JUUL users.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Cigarette smoking frequency, quantity, dependence, and quit intentions during adolescence: Comparison of menthol and non-menthol smokers (National Youth Tobacco Survey 2017-2020).Addictive behaviors · 2021Article
- Preparing for the Quit Day: Comparing Beliefs of Nondaily Versus Daily Young Adult Smokers as They Prepare for a Quit Attempt.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- Factors associated with changing cigarette consumption patterns among low-intensity smokers: Longitudinal findings across four waves (2008-2012) of ITC Mexico Survey.Addictive behaviors reports · 2018Article
- Infrequent and Frequent Nondaily Smokers and Daily Smokers: Their Characteristics and Other Tobacco Use Patterns.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2018Article
- Smiling Instead of Smoking: Development of a Positive Psychology Smoking Cessation Smartphone App for Non-daily Smokers.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Factors associated with short-term transitions of non-daily smokers: socio-demographic characteristics and other tobacco product use.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Article
- Determinants of Light and Intermittent Smoking in the United States: Results from Three Pooled National Health Surveys.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2017Article
- Interventional study plan to investigate the training effects on physical and psychological outcomes awareness of smoking in teenagers.Journal of education and health promotion · 2017Article
- Assessing 30-day quantity-frequency of U.S. adolescent cigarette smoking as a predictor of adult smoking 14 years later.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Article
- Cigarettes and alcohol: The influence of nicotine on operant alcohol self-administration and the mesolimbic dopamine system.Biochemical pharmacology · 2015Review
- Correlates of Converted and Native Nondaily Smoking.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2015Article
- Relationship of Smokefree Laws and Alcohol Use with Light and Intermittent Smoking and Quit Attempts among US Adults and Alcohol Users.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis study examined the prevalence of occasional smoking in a population of working adults, compared the characteristics of occasional and daily smokers, and prospectively examined the long-term smoking patterns of occasional smokers.
methodsAt 32 Minnesota work sites, 5681 randomly selected workers were surveyed at baseline; 5248 of these were surveyed again 2 years later. A cross-sectional sample of 5817 workers was also surveyed at follow-up.
resultsOccasional smokers constituted 18.3% of all smokers in the baseline sample and 21.5% of all smokers in the cross-sectional sample surveyed 2 years later. Baseline occasional smokers were significantly more likely than daily smokers to have quit at follow-up. Job monotony or repetitiveness was related to an increase to daily smoking at follow-up among baseline occasional smokers, and a change to a more restrictive workplace smoking policy was associated with quitting.
conclusionsThe results confirm that a substantial proportion of smokers are low-rate users and suggest that the proportion may be rising. Further research on this group is warranted.
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