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Fırat Tıp Dergisi
2002, Cilt 7, Sayı 3, Sayfa(lar) 823-827
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Success of Students Participated in Quit and Win Campaign in Elazığ Police Academy
Yasemin AÇIK, Canan GÜLBAYRAK, S. Erhan DEVECİ, A. Tevfik OZAN
Fırat Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Halk Sağlığı Anabilim Dalı, ELAZIĞ

Aim: This study was carried out to increase the rate of participation of Elazığ Police Academy Students to the campaign with award to quit smoking and to evaluate success rate of participated students after one month.

Materials and Methods: Among total of 217 smokers, 98 students participated in the study. By consulting the witnesses and measuring CO levels in inhaled air, fidelty of decleration to be successful of quiting smoking of participated students were established.

Results: Smoking rate of students, participation to the campaign and success rate were 63.4%, 45.1% and 14.3%, respectively. Mean age of participants was 25.9 ± 1.3 year. Average number of cigarettes smoked per day, smoking period and number of attemps to quit smoking were 15.7 ± 5.3 cigarette / day; 7.6 ± 2.7 year and 2.7 ± 3.1 times, respectively. The rate of success during campaign was 26.3% in 1-4 year smokers, 6.7% in 5-9 year smokers, 17.6% in 10+ year smokers before campaign. Success rate of participants who never intended quiting smoking was 0% where as it was 21.1% in smokers who tried to quit at least 5 times.

Conclusion: Although participation to the campaign is high, rate of quiting smoking is low. Due to importance of quit and win campaigns in the actions against smoking, number of campaigns and support to be given the participant during campaign must be increased.


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