Environmental influence and intention to quit smoking among college students

INTRODUCTION: Secondhand tobacco smoke is a known carcinogen and shown positive association with smoking status, susceptibility and cessation. Smoke free environment policy seem to reduce this exposure and influence intention to quit and frequency of quit attempts. Despite smoke free policy, smokers...

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Main Authors:	Zainal Abidin, Muhammad 'Adil, Kadir@Shahar, Hayati, Abdul Manaf, Rosliza
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	RA Public aspects of medicine
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/79349/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/79349/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/79349/1/79349_Enviromental%20influence%20and%20intention.pdf

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spelling	iium-793492020-03-12T02:38:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/79349/ Environmental influence and intention to quit smoking among college students Zainal Abidin, Muhammad 'Adil Kadir@Shahar, Hayati Abdul Manaf, Rosliza RA Public aspects of medicine INTRODUCTION: Secondhand tobacco smoke is a known carcinogen and shown positive association with smoking status, susceptibility and cessation. Smoke free environment policy seem to reduce this exposure and influence intention to quit and frequency of quit attempts. Despite smoke free policy, smokers are still exposed to second hand smoke and this might influence their smoking behaviour and cessation. OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure with intention to quit smoking among young adult in college with smoke free policy. METHODS: Data were drawn from a cluster based randomised controlled trial in 10 government colleges Selangor. Baseline characteristics of 160 college smoker were measured using adapted questionnaire. Intention to quit was measured using Transtheoretical Model and environmental influence of tobacco smoke exposure. RESULTS: The response rate was 100% (160 students) with majority of the smoker were male (99.4%), single (100%), of Malay ethnicity (94.4%) and Muslim (95.6%). Most of them are in pre-contemplation stage where they do not have any intention to quit (65.6%). On environmental influence, at work or college environmental exposure, majority were exposed between 1 to 2 hours (36.9%) and 3 to 8 hours (40.6%). On exposure at home or hostel, majority were exposed between 1 to 4 hours (44.4%) and 5 to 14 hours (21.9%). On friend's exposures, majority have most of their friend smokers (68.1%). We found no statistically significant association between environmental influence and intention to quit smoking. CONCLUSION: Although we found no relationship, future research should examine the pathway between environmental influence and smoking behaviour. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/79349/1/79349_Enviromental%20influence%20and%20intention.pdf Zainal Abidin, Muhammad 'Adil and Kadir@Shahar, Hayati and Abdul Manaf, Rosliza (2019) Environmental influence and intention to quit smoking among college students. In: International Family Health Conference 2019 (i-Fah 2019), 4th-5th September 2019, Kajang, Selangor. http://spel3.upm.edu.my/max/dokumen/I-FAH2019_ebook.pdf
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description	INTRODUCTION: Secondhand tobacco smoke is a known carcinogen and shown positive association with smoking status, susceptibility and cessation. Smoke free environment policy seem to reduce this exposure and influence intention to quit and frequency of quit attempts. Despite smoke free policy, smokers are still exposed to second hand smoke and this might influence their smoking behaviour and cessation. OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure with intention to quit smoking among young adult in college with smoke free policy. METHODS: Data were drawn from a cluster based randomised controlled trial in 10 government colleges Selangor. Baseline characteristics of 160 college smoker were measured using adapted questionnaire. Intention to quit was measured using Transtheoretical Model and environmental influence of tobacco smoke exposure. RESULTS: The response rate was 100% (160 students) with majority of the smoker were male (99.4%), single (100%), of Malay ethnicity (94.4%) and Muslim (95.6%). Most of them are in pre-contemplation stage where they do not have any intention to quit (65.6%). On environmental influence, at work or college environmental exposure, majority were exposed between 1 to 2 hours (36.9%) and 3 to 8 hours (40.6%). On exposure at home or hostel, majority were exposed between 1 to 4 hours (44.4%) and 5 to 14 hours (21.9%). On friend's exposures, majority have most of their friend smokers (68.1%). We found no statistically significant association between environmental influence and intention to quit smoking. CONCLUSION: Although we found no relationship, future research should examine the pathway between environmental influence and smoking behaviour.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Zainal Abidin, Muhammad 'Adil Kadir@Shahar, Hayati Abdul Manaf, Rosliza
author_facet	Zainal Abidin, Muhammad 'Adil Kadir@Shahar, Hayati Abdul Manaf, Rosliza
author_sort	Zainal Abidin, Muhammad 'Adil
title	Environmental influence and intention to quit smoking among college students
title_short	Environmental influence and intention to quit smoking among college students
title_full	Environmental influence and intention to quit smoking among college students
title_fullStr	Environmental influence and intention to quit smoking among college students
title_full_unstemmed	Environmental influence and intention to quit smoking among college students
title_sort	environmental influence and intention to quit smoking among college students
publishDate	2019
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/79349/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/79349/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/79349/1/79349_Enviromental%20influence%20and%20intention.pdf
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