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Childhood self-control predicts smoking throughout life: Evidence from 21,000 cohort study participants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Low self-control has been linked with smoking, yet it remains unclear whether childhood self-control underlies the emergence of lifetime smoking patterns. We examined the contribution of childhood self-control to early smoking initiation and smoking across adulthood.

Methods

21,132 participants were drawn from 2 nationally representative cohort studies; the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS) and the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS). Child self-control was teacher-rated at age 10 in the BCS and at ages 7 and 11 in the NCDS. Participants reported their smoking status and number of cigarettes smoked per day at 5 time-points in the BCS (ages 26-42) and 6 time-points in the NCDS (ages 23-55). Both studies controlled for socioeconomic background, cognitive ability, psychological distress, gender, and parental smoking; the NCDS also controlled for an extended set of background characteristics.

Results

Early self-control made a substantial graded contribution to (not) smoking throughout life. In adjusted regression models, a 1-SD increase in self-control predicted a 6.9 percentage point lower probability of smoking in the BCS, and this was replicated in the NCDS (5.2 point reduced risk). Adolescent smoking explained over half of the association between self-control and adult smoking. Childhood self-control was positively related to smoking cessation and negatively related to smoking initiation, relapse to smoking, and the number of cigarettes smoked in adulthood.

Conclusions

This study provides strong evidence that low childhood self-control predicts an increased risk of smoking throughout adulthood and points to adolescent smoking as a key pathway through which this may occur. (PsycINFO Database Record

SUBMITTER: Daly M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5067157 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Childhood self-control predicts smoking throughout life: Evidence from 21,000 cohort study participants.

Daly Michael M Egan Mark M Quigley Jody J Delaney Liam L Baumeister Roy F RF

Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 20160908 11

<h4>Objective</h4>Low self-control has been linked with smoking, yet it remains unclear whether childhood self-control underlies the emergence of lifetime smoking patterns. We examined the contribution of childhood self-control to early smoking initiation and smoking across adulthood.<h4>Methods</h4>21,132 participants were drawn from 2 nationally representative cohort studies; the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS) and the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS). Child self-control was teache ...[more]

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Childhood self-control predicts smoking throughout life: Evidence from 21,000 cohort study participants.

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Childhood self-control predicts smoking throughout life: Evidence from 21,000 cohort study participants.

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