| Abstract: | Background and purpose：The problem of adolescents smoking has been one of the spotlights among tobacco control issues.Surveys conducted by Bureau of Health Promotion indicated that the smoking prevalence rate of 13 to 15-year-old junior high school students was increasing from 6.5% (8.5% in males and females 4.2%) in 2004, to 7.5% in 2006 (9.7% in males and females 4.7%).In addition to keep preventing adolescents from beginning to smoke, we think it is meaningful to reduce the smoking juvenile population by finding out those influencing factors on the smoking cessation attempt of adolescents with smoking habits.Thus, this study is to analyze the profile of current smoking cessation behavior in junior high school students and correlated factors with smoking cessation attempt.
Materials and Methods：This study carries out a secondary data analysis. The data resource was from “Taiwan Youth Tobacco Survey, TYTS” conducted by Bureau of Health Promotion in 2006. We sifted out totally 3,864 smoking junior high school students as our research objects.In this study, we borrowed the fourth stage of PRECEDE-PROCEED model as our conceptual structure to classify possible impact factors into three categories: predisposing, reinforcing, enabling factors. In addition, we employed SPSS (ver. 12.0) software as our tool to have statistical inferences.
Results：The results showed that there was 84.23% of smoking cessation attempts among smoking junior high school students. There were no statistically significances between those attempts and gender, age, or school grade.In addition, the predisposing factors that influencing smoking cessation attempts of smoking junior high school students were “Belief of smoking on health”, “Belief of smoking on social relationship”, and “Attitude on the social image of female smoking”; the reinforcing factors were “Access to antismoking information”, “The sources of tobacco control advice or help”, and “Resistance of handy cigarette from good friends”; the enabling ones were “Whether or not buying cigarettes from out-of-pocket money.”
Conclusions and Recommendations: Those smoking adolescents are inclined to have smoking cessation attempts if they believe smoking are not good for their health and social relationships, or having negative attitudes on female smoking, having access to antismoking information, or having had been received tobacco control advice from health professionals, friends, or family members or the help of smoking-quitting program, or having had resistance of handy cigarette from good friends, or not having had buying cigarettes from out-of-pocket money.Therefore, we suggest there should be more services provision of smoking quitting channels available for junior high school students with smoking habits, in addition to endeavoring to law enforcement and continuous anti-smoking campaign.For the promotion of tobacco control education toward adolescents, we suggest a focus on the social skill trainings of interpersonal relationships and smoking resistances. Specifically, the training program may include the topics that smoking can result in negative social relationships, negative social images, and poor health. |
