To Explore the Factors Affecting the Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation

To Explore the Factors Affecting the Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation

Objectives:

Promoting quitting smoking and training smoking cessation educators in hospital, school, community, and workplace was being vigorously pushed by Health Promotion Administration. Since the implementation of the second-generation smoking cessation program by Health Promotion Administration, both the general public and medical institutions have worked with greater vitality to practice and promote quitting smoking. However, studies on smoking cessation in the inpatient remain inadequate. Increasing cessation motivation for inpatient smokers and evaluating their nicotine dependence are essential. In this study, we aimed to explore the factors that might influence the smoking cessation in the inpatients.

Method: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted on inpatients participants at the smoking cessation.

Questionnaire comprising（1）Demographic characteristics: age, sex, marital status, education, （2）physiological factors（concentration of carbon monoxide, nicotine dependence, disease severity）,（3）psychological factors（psychological dependence on smoking , smoking cessation stages of behavior change, smoking cessation self-efficacy）, （4）Social Factor: social support,（5）smoking Behavior indicators: smoked, daily cigarette consumption, smoking experience. After giving health education cessation of treatment one month, three months and six months, interviewed by telephone quitting behavior index contains daily cigarette consumption, quit rates point.

Inclusion Criteria:

• being a current smoker (who had smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime),
• aged > 20 years,
• with clear consciousness,
• being able to communicate using Mandarin or Taiwanese

Exclusion Criteria:

• with acute psychiatric disorders,
• inability to complete the questionnaire