A Promotion of Smoking Cessation of Privates in Fort Ingkhayutthaborihan, Pattani Province: a Pilot Study

Abstract

This research aimed to study a promotion of smoking cessation of privates in Fort Ingkhayut­thaborihan, Pattani Province during 5 January - 16 March 2019. The samples comprised of 29 medical privates in Fort Ingkhayutthaborihan hospital that were current smokers. The study was composed of 3 times of health education program, teeth cleaning and foot reflexology. Data were collected by question­naire interviewing in 3 phases: pre intervention phase, post intervention phase on the 6th week and follow up phase on the 10th week. Data analysis was performed by using descriptive statistics and repeated mea­sure ANOVA. The results showed that privates smoked an average of 10.7, 9.2 and 8.0 cigarettes/day, had the knowledge mean scores about cigarette 4.6, 6.6 and 6.1 points, had the perceived self-efficacy mean scores to quit smoking 35.9, 38.3 และ 37.5 points in pre intervention phase, post intervention phase and follow up phase respectively. Ten privates from this study tended to quit smoking. In summary, privates decreased the number of cigarettes 25.2% and tended to quit smoking 34.5% of total samples. They increased the knowledge score about cigarette and the perceived self-efficacy score to quit smoking without statistical significance after completing this pilot study. Main and additional activities that had the opportunity to quit smoking were teeth brushing training instead of smoking, watching clip VDO about cigarette, group activity for sharing their experiences and teeth cleaning.