Background : Current research indicates that smoking among young adults tends to persist into later life. Furthek~a, ~o~, _ rmorc, numerous studies have proven the harmful effects of female smoking on their offspring. These trends have produced a wide variety of (social, medical and economic) problems This study is aimed at obtaining basic inf ormation
q to help prevent potential smokers from trying their first cigarette as well as to instruct to stop smoking. This study nW.
13+4111. 7} involves the following: a) investigating general factors affecting the smoking status of college students in addition to yP the deterents to smoking b) seeking to understand the familial influence on smoking status c) researching how smok-
-SI4q, 4,g91 ers, exsmokers and nonsmokers perceive their familial influence on their smoking status.
Methods : In June 1998, a self administered questionnaire was distributed to 800 students of two junior colleges by random sampling in Pohang. 720 were returned and 642 displayed adequate responses. The questionnaires were ~a s n~a analyzed using SPSS and EXCEL software.
zl)l Results : Among the total of 642 subjects studied, 220 were males(34.3%) and 422 females(65.7%). Of the male
1):5967. subjects 149(67%) were smokers, 46(21%) were exsmokers and 25(11.3%) were nonsmokers. Of the female sub-
ject: 22(5.2%) were smokers, 399(929%) were exsmokers and 11(2.6%) were nonsmoker`s. The number of ciga-
tA71 1993;26 rettes smoked per day was as follows:79 subjects(46.2%) smoked 1020 cigarettes, 55(33.2%) smoked less than 10 J!
and 37(21.6%) smoked more than a pack of cigarette. When considering the elated factors which affect student
Adel H. Coro- smoking, it is evident that there is a growing tendency toward smoking among male students when they have close
leaged light friends who are smokers and who consume alcohol on a weekly basis. About the motives of smoking, there was a sign-
5762 ficant difference between the following two cases. Those(36.2%) who successfully quit smoking had started to smoke
and the risk through solicitation by friends, but only 27% were -successful if they had started to smoke to relieve stress. When it
9499. comes to the influence of familial factors on successful versus unsuccessful attempts to quit smoking, the status of
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family smokers, whether or not smokers made their habit obvious to family members and whether or not the family ,
allowed smoking did not have any noticeable statistical difference between continuation of smoking and smoking ces-
sation. However there was an obvious difference among exsmokers, nonsmokers and smokers when they respo-
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kern arette smok- rded as to whether or not their farruly had an effect on smoking status and smoking cessation.´ex_smo
(38.4/0
), arette and nonsmokers(30.6%) and smokers(17.0%).
evalence
9).~1 Conclusions : In the light of the related factors attributed to the continuation of smoking in this study, it was revealed that there was a higher passibility of current smoking when the subjects were amale and have close friends 111-1-ro- 15111 Ir
;17(9):798 who smoked and had a higher level of average alcohol consumption. This study also indicated that the continued smoking rate was higher among individuals who started smoking because of stress than those who began smoking as a result of peer pressure. There was no significant relationship between smoking status and familial influence on smoking cessation between smokers and exsmokers, but exsmokers and nonsmokers had more awarness of fa-
El~s~~} milial influence than smokers.(JKorean AcadFamMed 1999;20: 358367)
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