DOI: 10.3886/icpsr33161
title: Helping Young Smokers Quit: Identifying Best Practices for Tobacco Cessation, Phase II National Program Evaluation, 2003-2006
title: Archival Version

description: The Helping Young Smokers Quit (HYSQ) initiative was a multi-phase project that addressed the critical need to disseminate effective, developmentally appropriate cessation programs for young smokers. Phase I identified and described tobacco treatment programs available for youth in the United States, Phase II evaluated smoking secession programs tailored for youth to help understand what works, and Phase III identified factors associated with program sustainability. Phase II collected data from five sources: (1) program participants, (2) program providers, (3) program curricula, (4) organizational leaders, and (5) community leaders and community ordinances.


Program participants were interviewed at baseline, end-of program, 6-month follow-up, and 12-month follow-up. Topics covered by the interviews include age, gender, race, Hispanic origin, language spoken at home, employment, income, religiosity, school enrollment, education level, school grades, height, weight, extracurricular activities, recreation, sports, exercise, aspirations after high school, psychological well-being, alcohol consumption, cigarette use and use of other tobacco products, attitudes about smoking, plans to stop/continue smoking, attempts to quit smoking, reasons for participating in the program, topics/issues covered by the program, opinions about the program, and smoking experience since the beginning of the program. In addition, for each follow-up survey, the participants provided a breath sample for carbon monoxide analysis to validate self-reported quit status.


After the last session of each program delivery, the program providers, such as program leaders and cessation counselors, were interviewed about the content and delivery of the program and the reactions of the participants and themselves to the program as delivered. The program providers also kept attendance records.


Curriculum content was abstracted from program manuals and other materials used in each program.


Organizational leaders of the organizations that offered the programs were surveyed about various aspects of each organization, including the organization's smoking cessation program and the organization's mission, general operations, and smoking-related policies and practices.


Community-level information was collected in two ways: (1) interviews of community leaders representing local health departments, school boards, and juvenile justice offices, and (2) archival research of public ordinances relevant to tobacco and control policies.


Nine data files/datasets constitute the data. Datasets 1-4 contain the participant questionnaire data, carbon monoxide measurement data, and program attendance data. Dataset 5 comprises information about each program and its curriculum, some information about the community in which the program was located, and summary data about enforcement of tobacco-related ordinances. Dataset 6 contains information about about the program providers and each program delivery, including recruitment, logistics, content, and the reactions of providers and participants. Dataset 7 covers administrative aspects of the smoking cessation programs and each offering organization's mission, general operations, and smoking-related policies and norms. Dataset 8 contains information about local and state-level tobacco-related ordinances for every state and local jurisdiction where each program was located, and Dataset 9 condenses the information in Dataset 8 into one summary record for each community. The unit of observation for Datasets 1-4 is the participant, for Datasets 5 and 7 the smoking cessation program/offering organization, for Dataset 6 the program delivery/program cohort, for Dataset 8 the ordinance, and for Dataset 9 the community.
description: Phase II selected a purposive sample of 41 youth smoking cessation programs with characteristics hypothesized to be associated with desirable smoking cessation outcomes, offered in diverse locations and to diverse groups of youths, and employing a variety of standard youth smoking cessation curriculum packages. The programs were located in 55 communities in 18 states.


Some of the programs offered their cessation services several times during the Phase II data collection period, each time to a different group of participants. HYSQ defined each such group as a cohort. Each cohort went through the four rounds of data collection on its own individual time cycle, based on the start date of the cessation treatment. There were 79 cohorts in the 41 participating programs, ranging from 1 to 5 cohorts per program.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Participant Baseline
DS2: Participant End of Program
DS3: Participant 6-Month Follow-Up
DS4: Participant 12-Month Follow-Up
DS5: Program File
DS6: Provider
DS7: Organization
DS8: Full Ordinance
DS9: Ordinance Summary
description: Youth tobacco cessation programs in the United States.
description: record abstracts; self-enumerated questionnaire; on-site questionnaire; telephone interviewAdditional information about this project is available on the HYSQ Web site.ICPSR did not receive the Phase I or Phase III data.All of the data files except Dataset 8 can be merged with each other by matching on common identification variables.