J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs.  2020 Jun;29(2):168-176. 10.12934/jkpmhn.2020.29.2.168.

Success Experience of Smoking Cessation Among University Students

• An HJ

• KMID: 2504575
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2020.29.2.168

Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify the experience of smoking cessation of university students who successfully quit smoking for more than six months.
Methods
Data were collected through in-depth individual interviews Oct 7, 2019-Dec 22, 2019 and analyzed with Colaizzi's phenomenological methodology.
Results
The result was a collection of 5 theme-clusters from 14 themes, and the theme-clusters were 'recognition', 'warning', 'painstaking', 'awareness' and 'maturity'. Participants were aware of the possibility of re-smoking and the endurance of re-smoking. And they faced the temptation to smoke and actively managed it to abstain from re-smoking.
Conclusion
Smoking cessation is not the end of the addiction treatment, but a new beginning that requires nursing interventions. Finally, the success of smoking cessation is a painful growth process that reflects on life and changing lifestyles.

Keyword

Smoking cessation; Students; Qualitative research; 금연성공; 학생; 질적연구