Perception and motivation to quit smoking based on teenager’s smoking behaviour

Abstract

Smoking behaviour has a bad impact on teenagers, including the lack of motivation to achieve academically. Previous research claims that the perception of smoking and the motivation to quit smoking may impact smoking behaviour. The purpose of the research, identifying which one of both variables play a stronger role in its impact toward the teenager’s smoking behavior. The research is a quantitative research involving 192 teenagers as the sample in Bandung city, using questionnaires on perception, motivation, and behavior. Data analysis used univariate and bivariate and Spearman correlation tests. The findings of this research shows that 56% of Bandung teenagers have a positive perception, 51% others a positive motivation, and 56% positive behaviour. This proves that the coefficient value of the correlation between perception and motivation is 0.238, and the coefficient value of the correlation between motivation and behavior is 0.387. This research concludes that the motivation to quit smoking has a stronger relationship than the perception of smoking. Thus, to change the smoking behaviour in teenagers, it is necessary to increase the motivation to quit smoking whatsoever. Possible actions is to have a counselling session to help change the teenager’s health behaviour. The value of study to obtain the unique characteristic of teenager in Indonesia.