The Study on the Stage of Smoking Cessation and Related Factors among Smoking Students in Senior High Schools and Vocational High Schools in Taipei Area

• Main Authors: Lin Ya-Ting, 林雅婷
• Other Authors: Lee Ching-Mei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56687810061551447802

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系 === 98 === The purpose of this study was to explore the stage of smoking cessation and related factors among adolescents. The subjects were smoking students from eight purposively selected schools in Taipei area. The total number of valid subject was 130. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 17.0. The main findings were presented as follows: 1.Regarding the stage of smoking cessation, 42.3% of the smoking students had never considered quitting smoking (precontemplation stage), 40.0% had considered quitting (contemplation or preparation stage), while 17.7% had quit (action or maintenance stage). 2.The stage of smoking cessation among the students was significantly related to demographic variables, smoking status, and protective factors of cessation. The smoking students who considered quitting smoking or had quit were more likely to have mother in low education level, be from single-parent family, have low nicotine dependence, have positive anti-smoking attitude, have high risk perception of smoking, use more cessation skills, have higher self-efficacy for quit, have few smoking friends, and have friends disagree with smoke. 3.Demographic variables, smoking status, quitting experience, protective factors of cessation could predict the stage of cessation among adolescents. With the students who had never considered quitting (precontemplation stage) as reference group, mother's education level, and self-efficacy for quit were the major predictive factors of quit among the students who had quit (action or maintenance stage). However, no variables could predict the stage of contemplation or preparation, with the students who had never considered quitting (precontemplation stage) as reference group. Base on the research findings, it is suggested that the development of cessation teaching materials should focus on anti-smoking attitude, risk perception of smoking, smoking cessation skills, and self-efficacy for quit. In addition, the guidance mechanism to assist adolescents to quit smoking should be well developed.