Investigation on smoking behavior and smoking intention in future 3-5 years among students of a medical college in Chongqing / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the smoking intention in future 3-5 years among the students of a medical college in Chongqing .Methods According to the stratified cluster random sampling ,1 457 students from 3 grades in 5 faculties were sampled and performed the questionnaire investigation on the smoking behavior and smoking intention .Results The smoking rate was 12 .69% and the attempting smoking rate was 14 .95% .Among them ,the smoking rate and the attempting smoking rate in males were 32 .59% and 27 .46% ,and which in females were 3 .51% and 9 .18% ,respectively .The proportions of the students with hesi-tation and affirmation for answering the smoking intention in future 3-5 years and the current smoking students were 49 .44% and 23 .89% respectively ;which were 34 .82% and 14 .29% in males and 10 .52% and 1 .65% in females respectively ;which were 10 .24% and 3 .01% in grade 1 ,24 .73% and 7 .44% in grade 2 and 20 .30% and 6 .70% in grade 3 .Conclusion Partial medical students still insist on smoking in future ,and especially the students with the hesitating attitude of smoking in the future occupy a higher proportion .So it is necessary to strengthen the smoking control work in medical college and the antismoking attitude educa-tion .