Background: Although there is strong evidence that behavioral counseling improves quit rates, limited data are available on individualized smoking CESSATION counseling provided to female smokers because they often are hesitant to identify as smokers. This study aimed to elucidate factors related to smoking CESSATION among Korean women who participated in the smoking CESSATION outreach program. Methods: This retrospective descriptive study used data retrieved from the Korea Health Promotion Institute. The data included individual participant characteristics, supportive services received, and self-reported smoking CESSATION outcomes from June 1, 2015, to December 31, 2017. Results: Data from 709 women were analyzed. We found CESSATION rates of 43. 3% (confidence interval [CI] = 0. 40, 0. 47) at four weeks, 28. 6% (CI = 0. 25, 0. 32) at 12 weeks, and 21. 6% (CI = 0. 19, 0. 25) at six months. Significant determinants of quitting at six months were regular exercise (odds ratio [OR] = 3. 02,95% CI = 1. 28, 3. 29,P = 0. 009) and the number of counseling sessions during the first four weeks of the program (OR = 1. 26,95% CI = 1. 04, 1. 82,P = 0. 041). Conclusion: Providing intensive counseling during initial phase of smoking CESSATION program and regular exercise would be effective strategies for smoking CESSATION programs for women smokers to promote their health.

Background: This study describes the status of 548 smokers who participated in the monthly quitting course of the first" Smoking CESSATION Clinic" in Iran between the years 1998 through 2000.Materials and Methods: All the target population completed the educational courses, which consisted of 7 sessions of 90 minutes in the groups of 6-15. Cigarette intake per/day among the smokers was: in 92 cases (16.9%) less than 10 cigarettes, in 262 (48.1%) between 11-20 cigarettes, and in the remaining 191 (35%)more than 20 cigarettes.Results: The percentages of CESSATION in these threegroupswere95.7%,89.3%, and 83.8%respectively.Thisshowsthat the quitting rates among those who smoke less are significantly high (X2 for trend: p=0.003).Among them, 193(35.2%) attended all the visits regularly, 177(32.3%) were absent for one session and 178(32.5%) for 2-3 sessions. The quitting percentage in these groups were 94.8%, 93.8%, and 75.8% respectively, the relationship remains Significantly associated with the lower absence rate (p=0.0001).There was no significant difference between the percentage of men and women who failed to complete the educational monthly course for any reasons (p=0.72).Besides, no significant difference was observed between both genders who had succeeded to quit (p=0.12). Conclusion: The results confirm that the CESSATION rate in those who have smoked less cigarettes and attended the clinic courses more regularly were significantly more successful than the others.

Introduction: Smoking is considered as the first preventable cause of mortality worldwide. Smoking CESSATION is influenced by many factors including social, familial and individual aspects. High nicotine dependency is a remarkable cause that makes CESSATION laborious for the smoker. There are many modalities to estimate the rate of nicotine dependency in practice among which Fagerstrom test is one of the most suitable, practical and noninvasive ways.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. Data was obtained by questionnaire from all smokers who had participated in teaching-healing courses of Tehran smoking CESSATION clinic during 2001-2003. Nicotine dependency rate was evaluated via Fagerstrom test. CESSATION was investigated by subject's declaration of nonsmoking after the third session of the course, then it was confirmed by measuring the expiratory carbon monoxide titer. Data was analyzed by SPSS software using T-test and Chi-Square test.Results: There were 987 entrants in the study in which 786 persons (79.9%) were male. Evaluation of nicotine dependency rate showed that more than half (544 persons, 52%) of the smokers had moderate dependency and 112 smokers (11.4%) had low dependency. The success rate in CESSATION at the end of the course was 89.6% (642 persons) which was obtained by subtracting the eliminated group. Correlation of CESSATION results at the end of course with nicotine depended rate (Fagerstrom test) in participants reveals that there are three states: Success, Failure and discontinuation of survey. The maximum rate of success in CESSATION was among the smokers with low nicotine dependency (79 persons, 70.5%) and the minimum one belongs to smokers with high nicotine dependency (323 persons, 59.4%) (P<0.001).Conclusion: It seems that smokers with high nicotine dependency had a poor opportunity to become successful. Hence it is recommended to draw special attention to hold particular courses with longer duration and multi-drug therapy for CESSATION of patients with high dependency.