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Smoking susceptibility is an effective screening technique for identifying high risk adolescents for smoking initiation. Susceptibility remains a significant factor even after the psychological variables such as peer-group norms or accessibility are controlled. Addition of these variables can help in the precise identification of adolescents at increased risk for experimenting with cigarettes from those who have refrained from such experimentation.

A smoking cessation program that involves a scheduled smoking procedure implies that scheduled smoking and relapse prevention procedures are more efficient as conditioned measures for smoking withdrawal than are minimal contact control programs. The superiority of the scheduled smoking program is due to its ability to inhibit additional nicotine self-injection that smokers are used to. This procedure eliminates the favorable effects of smoking on mood, concentration and performance, and directs the senses of smokers to alternatives.

A study is conducted among 1699 students in California from varied backgrounds in the sixth and seventh grades to identify the relationship between hostility, intensity of depressive symptoms and smoking. The results show that the relationship between hostility and smoking was more intense among students who indicate intense level of depressive symptoms.