Adolescents’ perceptions about quitting and nicotine replacement therapy: findings from the California Tobacco Survey

We collected data from 5,857 adolescent (12–17 y) respondents in California to assess their perception about quitting smoking and nicotine replacement therapy use.In multivariate models, never smokers were less likely than established or experimenter smokers to believe that if they were to smoke they could quit anytime but were more likely to believe that nicotine replacement therapy is a sure way to quit.