Smoking Behavior, Social Support, and Cessation Motivation in Smoking Among Health Sciences’ Students

Abstract

Introduction: Many students have been accustomed to smoking, including those majoring at health sciences. Theoretically, they are supposed to be the ones who are actively aware of some possible health damages caused by smoking habit. Thus, people around them play an essential role in taking control of someone’s pattern through social support, especially over those who are highly motivated to quit smoking. Objective: This study aimed to identify smoking behavior, social support, and cessation motivation in smoking among health sciences’ students. Methods: This research was categorized as observational-descriptive one, with the use of accidental sampling technique to recruit as many as 63 students of faculty of health sciences who were defined as active smokers. The data, furthermore, were collected by means of a questionnaire. At last, a statistical-descriptive analysis was used to evaluate the data. Result: The result was most of the involved respondents were shown to have a moderate trend of smoking (65%). On the other hand, the majority of the respondents had been supported through some types of social support with relatively high percentage, to name appraisal support (indicating 71%), tangible support (indicating 87%), self-esteem support (indicating 97%), and belonging support (indicating 92%). Moreover, most of the respondents were equipped by the high level of quittance motivation from smoking, signifying 71%. Discussion: This research had indicated that the level of smoking habit perceived by the respondents was moderate. In short, appraisal support was defined as high, tangible support low, self-esteem support high, and belonging support high. In addition, some of the respondents had demonstrated a high level of quittance motivation from smoking

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“…and valuable. Supporting findings were also found in research that self-esteem influences smoking behavior in college students [35].…”

Measuring the Impacts of Self Efficacy and Perceived Health Benefits toward Smoking Cessation of e-Cigarettes

“…The aim of this conceptual study is to provide an overview of the factors that influence behavior of ecigarette smokers based on the viewpoints of the Theory of Planned Behavior, and to propose an inclusion of self-efficacy to replace perceived behavioral control and perceived health benefits to replace subjective norm from the existing theoretical format. This current research was the same in logic with another one carried out by Melizza et al (2020), self-efficacy variable was closely interlinked to the intention of quittance from smoking. Thus, opined that the respondents found to possess high self-efficacy were highly motivated to quit smoking.…”

“…According to Messer, Trinidad, Al-Delaimy, and Pierce (2008), highly dependent smokers exhibited lower intentions to stop than did less dependent smokers, suggesting that the smoker's dependence may be the major component influencing the effect of self-efficacy on intention to stop. Perceived self-efficacy and motivation to stop smoking were found to be correlated, according to research by Melizza et al (2020). Therefore, the more smokers rely on themselves, the more likely it is that they will use that as a risk-reducing mechanism to help them keep smoking rather than try to stop.…”

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“…Additionally, the level of exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) was positively correlated with addiction, automatism and affiliative attachment [24]. For university students, a correlation exists between perceived self-efficacy and motivation to quit smoking, with high self-efficacy associated with increased motivation to quit [25]. Other predictive factors for cessation include various psychological factors, such as mood and self-efficacy [26], as well as delay discounting-the reduction in reward value as a function of the delay to receipt.…”