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KMID : 1022620060060040283
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Journal of Korean Academy of Dental Hygiene Education
2006 Volume.6 No. 4 p.283 ~ p.294
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The Realities of Smoking among Some College Students and Their Relevant Knowledge
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Kim Jin
Lim Sun-A
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to examine the state of smoking among some college students, the smoking motivation of smoker students, what made them quit smoking and how they got ready for giving up smoking, as smoking had a huge impact on national health and there was a desperate necessity for preventive antismoking education programs to let students keep away from smoking. After a survey was conducted with self-administered questionnaires from October 1 through November 1, 2006, the responses from 400 students were gathered, and 384 answer sheets were analyzed except 16 incomplete ones. The findings of the study were as follows:
1. By gender, 62.4% of the male students and 28.6% of the female students were smokers, and the state of smoking was statistically significantly different according to their gender(p<0.05).
2. The largest number of the male students, which accounted 44.1%, started smoking in their high school days, and 39.5 % of the females did that in middle school. As for a daily mean amount of smoking, 41.8% of the male students, the greatest percentage, smoked 10 to 19 cigarettes a day, and one to nine cigarettes were most common among the females, which represented 57.9%. But the gap between the two was insignificant(p>0.05). As many as 83.6 % of the males and 86.8 % of the females had ever attempted to quit it.
3. Concerning awareness of antismoking policies, they felt that a raise in cigarette price would lead to less smoking, and that antismoking advertisement or posters through television or newspaper would deliver the same results as well. There was a statistically significant difference among their awareness(p<0.05).
4. Regarding preparation stage for quitting smoking, 31.3% of the male smokers had no intention to give it up, and 23.2% considered it. 36.7 %, the largest percentage, got ready to refrain from it. Among the female smokers, 34.2% had no plans to abstain from smoking, and 36.8 % took it into consideration. 23.7 % got ready to do that. The females who got ready for that were outnumbered the males who did.
5. As to connections between the state of smoking and relevant knowledge, the students didn’t have a good knowledge on that, and a statistically significant difference existed between the smokers and nonsmokers in smoking knowledge.
6. As for knowledge about oral diseases, they were highly cognizant of the relationship of smoking to tooth discoloration, nicotine stomatitis and bad breath, but they didn’t know well about its relationship to delayed recovery from dental treatment, implant failure and ozena. Their smoking condition made a statistically significant difference to their knowledge (p<0.05).
In the future, sustained research efforts should be channeled into determining how much smoking affects health and concerns oral diseases, and antismoking counseling programs should be prepared to bolster people’s awareness of oral health.
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KEYWORD
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Antismoking policies, Preparation stage, Smoking, Smoking motivation
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