Assessing tobacco usage, motivation and readiness to quit smoking among people who have wilingness to quit smoking

Abstract

Background: There are 1.1 billion smokers worldwide and 8 million smoking related deaths have been reported every year. In Mongolia, 27.1 percent of the total population are smokers. Of them, fifty percent have attempted to quit smoking, but only one-third of them have received evidence-based smoking cessation counseling, with a success rate of one in 10. Aim: Evaluation of tobacco consumption and smoking motivation and readiness of citizens who want to quit smoking Materials and Methods: Research participants were from Songino khairkhan, Khan-Uul, Chingeltei district’s residents, age from 18 to 65 years old, base population were 409.261, 95% probability, standard deviation 0.05, sample populations were 110.910. Results: A total of 433 people aged 18-65 participated in the research, 78.8 percent were men /n=341/, and 21.2 percent were women /n=92/. Average life expectancy is 47.65±10.42 years. The average age of all people who started smoking was 19±6.6, they smoked an average of 15 cigarettes a day. When the motivations and reasons for smoking were evaluated by a standard questionnaire, the following were used: relaxation (20.4%), craving (19.1%), pleasure (18.1%), self-restoration (15.4%), habituation (14.8%), and refreshed. (12.1%) It was determined that they were smoking. Participants’ willingness to quit smoking was assessed on a scale of 1 to 10 using 4 questions, the score considered important to quit smoking was 9.5, and confidence 8.8, suitable time to quit smoking 9.6, willingness to quit smoking was 9.6 points. Conclusion: The higher the number of cigarettes smoked per day in the study, the higher the nicotine dependence. As the level of nicotine dependence increases, people think it is important to quit smoking, but the confidence to quit smoking is reduced by 8.1±2.3.