Abstract

Objectives: The smoking rate of women is lower than that of men; however, it is increasing. In Korea, the public health center smoking cessation clinic, visiting smoking cessation support service, 4-night 5-day program, and Quitline were in operation for women. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between smoking cessation failure factors and the characteristics of smoking women by smoking cessation support service. Methods: This study targeted a total of 125.097 people from January 2017 to December 2019 in the integrated information system for smoking cessation services. A total of 93,594 people excluding missing values were used as final analysis data. The general characteristics of the subjects, smoking-related characteristics, and 12-week smoking cessation failure rate were investigated. Results: The 4-night 5-day program had the lowest failure rate (33%), the college student program showed a significant failure rate of 5.43 times (CI=4.35-6.77) than the 4-night 5-day program. Conclusion: To increase the success rate of smoking cessation for women, programs that increase self-efficacy and will to quit smoking, such as the therapeutic 4-night 5-day program, and programs such as Quitline that can be accessed regardless of social views should be expanded.

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