Resources

• Baseline Assessment (with demographic characteristics, tobacco use, waterpipe smoking, and waterpipe smoking dependence)
• Individual Ratings of Warning Messages (Rating Questionnaire)
• 3 Month follow up (assessing harm perception, intention to quit smoking, recall, change in waterpipe smoking)
  • Harm perception will be asked pre-/post-smoking and at 3-month assessment using 1 item “To what extent are you thinking about the serious health effects of WP smoking?” (Thrasher 2012)
  • Intention and motivation to quit will be asked pre-/post-smoking  and at 3-month assessment using 3 items; “Do you intend to reduce WP smoking?”; “Do you intend to quit WP smoking?”, and “How motivated are you to quit WP smoking in the next month?” (Carpenter 2004)
  • Recall will be asked at 3-month assessment using 1 item “Try to recall what the HWLs warning information were stated and type it in the box below” (Kees 2010)
  • Social interaction will be asked at 3-month assessment using 1 item “Since you started the study, how many times did you have a conversations with your family/friends about the HWLs?” (Brewer 2016)
  • Change in WP smoking will be asked at 3-month assessment using 3 items; “Since you started the study, 1- did you stop smoking for 1 day or longer because you were trying to quit WP smoking?, 2- did you avoid smoking WP because you were thinking about the HWLs?, and 3- did you stop WP smoking completely because of the HWLs?” (Brewer 2016)
• Subjective dependence and satisfaction measures assess smoker’s satisfaction with smoking, and the direct effects of tobacco/nicotine consumption on dependence measures (e.g. withdrawal and craving). We will use 4 subjective measures:
• The Duke Sensory Questionnaire (DSQ) (Malson 2002, Pickworth 2002)
• The Cigarette/WP Evaluation Scale (WES) (Rose 2000, Malson 2002)
• The brief version of Questionnaire of Smoking Urges-brief (QSU) (Cox 2001)
• Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal Scale (MNWS) (Hughes 1986)
• Use satisfaction(Modified Cigarette Evaluation Questionnaire-mCEQ)
• Dependence(Questionnaire of Smoking Urges-brief; Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal Scale; Penn State Electronic Cigarette Dependence Index)
• Puff sensory effects (Duke Sensory Scale) (Maziak et al., 2019a; Foulds et al., 2015; Malson & Pickworth, 2002)

Resources to Quit Smoking

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Florida Tobacco Quitline

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Tobacco Free Florida

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End Teen Vaping

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• Website: endteenvapingfl.gov

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids

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• Website: tobaccofreekids.org

Truth Initiative

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• Website: truthinitiative.org

FDA Center for Tobacco Products

• The FDA Center for Tobacco Products aims to protect and promote public health by regulating the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products and reducing tobacco use, particularly among youth. Visit the FDA Center for Tobacco Products website to learn more about the regulations of tobacco products.
• Website: fda.gov/tobacco-products

CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health

• The CDC’s office on Smoking and Health provides basic information on the dangers of tobacco use, benefits of quitting, data and statistics on the smoking prevalence of tobacco use in the United States and much more.
• Website: cdc.gov/tobacco/

American Lung Association

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• Website: lung.org