Healthy Community Development about Tobacco and Alcoholic Drinking Cessation in Sung Noen Municipality, Sung Noen District, Nakhonratchasima Province

Abstract

This Quasi-experimental research using the one group post-test design aimed to conduct a healthy community development about tobacco and alcoholic drinking cessation in Sung Noen Municipality, Sung Noen District, Nakhonratchasima province. The participants were 70 current smokers and 70 current alcohol drinkers in Sung Noen Municipality. Sampling was purposive quota sampling.  Data were collected using interview forms, and were statistical analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test with the significance level at 0.05. The results showed that, 14.3% of the subjects quit smoking after complete participating in the project. The smoking cessation group had a significantly higher anti - smoking attitude than those who has continued smoking (p <0.001) While the knowledge level about tobacco smoking between the two groups was not different (p = 0.418). After the project completion, 15.7% of the subjects stopped alcoholic drinking. The level of knowledge about alcoholic drinking and anti-alcoholic drinking attitude between stopped alcoholic drinking group and those who continued drinking were not significantly different (p = 0.354 and p = 0.979 respectively). In conclusion, the healthy community development about tobacco and alcoholic drinking cessation may resulted in quit smoking and stopped alcoholic drinking of participants. The participants and their family should be continually monitored, and empowered to quit smoking and stop drinking. This project should be expanded covering target group, Policy should focus on promotion of working   with community to decrease behaviors of cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking.