Research Of Factors Influencing Cigarette Smoking And Intention To Quit Smoking.

Objective:To find factors influencing smoking and intention of smoking cessation,provide theory foundation for developing tactic and method of smoking cessation.Methods:We use stratified smaple method,choose each community from Changsha country,the city of Liuyang and the city of Changsha,use self-made sociodemographic questionnaire,self-made smoking history questionnaire,Family APGAR index,perceived stress questionnaire,Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence,Zung self-rating depression scale, use SPSS 17.0 to make t test,χ2 method, Mann-whitney U test,Logistic regression explore the factor related to smoking and intention to stop smoking,and how these factors make.Results:1.The smoking rate of the sample is 39.4%,while the rate of quitting smoking is only 3.6%,19.4% smokers have intention to quit smoking.2.Compared with non-smokers,smokers with low level of education,the monthly family income is poor,PSS scores are high,SDS scores are higher, APGAR scores are higher, There is different between gender,be ill when having physical checkup,whether or not there are always people smoking in the workplace, (p<0.05).There are no difference between smokers and non-smokers on regions,age,marital status,occupation,PSS out of control scale(p>0.05). Logistic regression indicate that the factors influencing the behavior of smoking are: sex,education,wheher there are always people smoking in the workplace,PSS score,whether or not have disease when having physical checkup,APGAR score.3.The person who wants to stop smoking,considers that smoking harms health,and is concered that smoking will influence their quality of life,the majority have smoking-related disease, the year duration of regular smoking is shorter,the times for quitting smoking are large, cigarette consumpted everyday is small, minor nicotine dependence compared to no intention to stop smoking,difference is significant(p<0.05).There are no difference among regions,age,gender, marital status,education,monthly income,occupation,whether or not there are always smokers smoking in the workplace,PSS score,SDS score,family function,the onset age of trying smoking,the age of regular smoking,smoking status in the last month,whether cigarette consumpted out of their econommic ability.Logistic regression indicate that these factors influencing the intention to smoking cessation are:age,gender, whether or not have disease when having physical checkup,the cigarette number consumpted everyday,the year duration of rugular smoking,the quitting smoking history,when having economic stress buying cigarette,wheher concered with smoking harming health.Conclusions:1. Smoking prevalence is high 39.4%,while the rate of quitting smoking is low 3.6%,intention to quit smoking is rare 19.4%.2. Risky factors for smoking are:in the environment of other people smoking,high perceived stress.Protective factors from smoking are female,high education, good family function, high monthly income. Smokers will be likely to diagonoses disease when having physical checkup.The implications for clinic is that we should put more emphasis on the low socialeconomic people.The policy for no-smoking in the workplace should be strict..3. The year duration of smoking is longer,cigarette consumpted everyday is higher will hanger them from intention for quitting smoking,be illness when having physical checkup,concerned with the harm doing to health,the quitting smoking history,when stressed by buying cigarettes,female,older age will be likely to intent to quit smoking. The implications for clinic is that regular checkup, propagant the harm of health because of smoking,increase tobacco tax will trigger the intention to quit smoking.