Success Experience of Smoking Cessation Among University Students
10.12934/jkpmhn.2020.29.2.168
- Author:
Hyo Ja AN
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Author Information
1. Professor, Department of Nursing, Dongshin University, Naju, Korea
- Publication Type:Original Article
- From:Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
2020;29(2):168-176
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:0
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Abstract:
Purpose:The purpose of this study was to identify the experience of smoking cessation of university students who successfully quit smoking for more than six months.
Methods:Data were collected through in-depth individual interviews Oct 7, 2019-Dec 22, 2019 and analyzed with Colaizzi's phenomenological methodology.
Results:The result was a collection of 5 theme-clusters from 14 themes, and the theme-clusters were 'recognition', 'warning', 'painstaking', 'awareness' and 'maturity'. Participants were aware of the possibility of re-smoking and the endurance of re-smoking. And they faced the temptation to smoke and actively managed it to abstain from re-smoking.
Conclusion:Smoking cessation is not the end of the addiction treatment, but a new beginning that requires nursing interventions. Finally, the success of smoking cessation is a painful growth process that reflects on life and changing lifestyles.
