Tuberc Respir Dis.  2004 Nov;57(5):411-418.

The Characteristics of Korean Smoker, Enrolled in'5 day Smoking Cessation4 School' and The Effect of Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program

• Lee BS
• Kang KH
• Chae EH
• Kim MC
• Jung JI
• Chang HJ
• Lee SH
• Cho DS
• Shin JG
• Kim HJ

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking is the single biggest avoidable cause of death and disability in most countries. Effective prevention of cigarette Smoking and help for those wishing to quit can therefore yield enormous health benefits for populations and individuals. Although most of smokers try to stop smoking for themselves, the success rate of quitting smoking is very low. Promoting and supporting smoking cessation should be an important health policy priority for healthcare professionals in all clinical settings. In this study, we tried to evaluate the effect of the educational program for smoking cessation of our hospital, the smoking pattern, and characteristics of adult smokers enrolled in the program.
METHODS
We enrolled 640 smokers, who has visited the '5 day stop smoking school' for smoking cessation from Jan 1998 to 2001. we evaluated the characteristics of the smokers based on the self report questionnaire at the beginning of the program and we also checked 100 smokers, enrolled in Inpatient Smoking Cessation Educational program, their smoking behavior and the cessation rate with postal questionnaire after finishing this program from Nov 2002 to Jan 2003.
RESULTS
The health was most common motivation for smoking cessation. The stress was the most important motivation of smoking. The overall smoking cessation rate of the smokers enrolled in inpatient smoking cessation school was 60%. The age of starting smoking and the kind of occupation have a significant difference between the success group and failure group of smoking cessation.
CONCLUSION
The inpatient smoking cessation program was effective smoking cessation intervention in the adult smokers who enrolled in '5 day stop smoking school'.

Keyword

5 day stop smoking school; Smoking cessation; Inpatient smoking cessation program

MeSH Terms

Adult
Cause of Death
Delivery of Health Care
Health Policy
Humans
Inpatients*
Insurance Benefits
Motivation
Occupations
Surveys and Questionnaires
Self Report
Smoke*
Smoking Cessation*
Smoking*
Smoke