Result of Smoking cessation clinic in Khunkuan primary care center Pong Distric Phayao Province

Abstract

The one group pretest-posttest study was conducted to evaluate smoking cessation process, developed based on health belief model in Khun kuan health promotion hospital, Pong district, Phayao province. Forty smokers enrolled in the program. The evaluation was done at 1* week, 2" week, 1* month, 34 month, 6" month and one year after the program start. Statistics employed in the study were percentage, mean, standard deviation, Kruskal-Wallis test, Wilcoxon signed rank test and significant level was set as 0.05. The study revealed that at 1 and 2 week no one was able to quit smoking. However,at 1* month, 34 month and 6" month, the number of smokers who quit was 14, 18 and 20 or 35%, 45% and 50% respectively. Then the rate of smoking cessation was still until one year. Twenty smokers, who could not quit, were able to statistically significant decrease number of cigarette smoking per day. Average smoking at enrollment was 10.4decreased to 9.05 at 1week (p=0.001), 7.4 at 2nd week (p<0.001), 5.6 at 1“ month (p<0.001), 4.35 at 6" month (p<0.001) and remained 1.6 cigarettes per day when program finished. Smoking cessation was not found different among age group (p=0.264), gender (p=0.240)and education level (p=0.606).Conclusion was that the efficacy of process of smoking cessation, developed based health belief model, affected 50% of smokers to quit smoking during 6 month. Another 50% of smokers, who could not quit,decreased number of cigarettes smoking per day from 10.4 to 1.6 in one year.