금연 성공군의 금연 실패군과 비교를 통한 금연 성공요인 분석

The factors associated with smoking cessation in korea

Background: In spite of harmfulness of smoking, the smoking rate of adult is high in Korea. Korea is one of the heavist smoking countries, due to the tolerant environments towards smokers, the weak anti-smoking police and the undeveloped smoking cessation programs. Recently, though those who succeed in stoping smoking and maintaining it are increasing, there are few studies about the characteristics of those who successful in smoking cessation. The purpose of this study is therefore to identify what factors are likely to influence the effectiveness of smoking cessation in adult Korean smokers. Method: Participants were 108 smokers(success group 45, failure group 63), registered at an public health center(80) and working area 28) smoking cessation program from Apr. to Nov. 2006 were included, the questionnaire consisted of questions of health perception(HP), satisfaction(SA), vality(VA), emotional function(EF), fagerstrom tolerance questionnaire, (FTQ) and the why test. Result: There was no relationship between the two groups in the demographic characteristics. In view of success of smoking cessation that can influences them such as physical pain, Nicotine dependence, stress rating pain and counselor of smoking cessation Conclusion: The results of logistic regression analysis was shown that the factor that is most associated with success of smoking cessation is the counselor of smoking cessation. This means that the more people who smoke consult with nurse and the longer the period of utilizing the smoking cessation clinic is, the more successful they are in smoking cessation.