Vol. 5 (02) pp. 2173-2178 DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3392

KFU STUDENT’S KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE ABOUT CIGARETTE SMOKING CESSATION.

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Abstract

Purpose of the Study: determine the knowledge of King Faisal University students about cigarette smoking cessation options of male students , by King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. A random sample of 300 students from 5 different colleges at the university answered a self-administered questionnaire based on a modified and translated research questionnaire by Lisa Hope titled “Smoking Cessation Knowledge and Clinical Cessation Techniques Among Medicine Residents” . 62% of smokers knew about counseling option .while 83% of non-smokers knew about it. 58% and 65.8% from smokers and non-smokers ,respectively, knew about nicotine replacement therapy. 18% of smokers and non-smokers knew about Prozac and Bupropion. The study showed lack of anti-smoking campaign exposure, 44.6 of participants have not seen any anti-smoking campaign in the past year.

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Ali Adel Al-Amer, Husseien Al-Jaziri, Ahmed Al-Hajji, Ahmed Ghawas, Abdullah Al-Maihan, Khaled Al-Muraydhi, Ali Al-Alawi, Ayman Al-Mohammed, Ali Alsulaiman, Mahdi Al-Sowilen and Abdulmohsen Al-Jaziri. (2017); KFU STUDENT’S KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE ABOUT CIGARETTE SMOKING CESSATION., Int. J. of Adv. Res., 5 (02), 2173-2178, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3392

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Ali Adel Al-Amer

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