Success Experience of Smoking Cessation Among University Students / 정신간호학회지

ABSTRACT

Purpose@#The purpose of this study was to identify the experience of smoking cessation of university students who successfully quit smoking for more than six months. @*Methods@#Data were collected through in-depth individual interviews Oct 7, 2019-Dec 22, 2019 and analyzed with Colaizzi's phenomenological methodology. @*Results@#The result was a collection of 5 theme-clusters from 14 themes, and the theme-clusters were 'recognition', 'warning', 'painstaking', 'awareness' and 'maturity'. Participants were aware of the possibility of re-smoking and the endurance of re-smoking. And they faced the temptation to smoke and actively managed it to abstain from re-smoking. @*Conclusion@#Smoking cessation is not the end of the addiction treatment, but a new beginning that requires nursing interventions. Finally, the success of smoking cessation is a painful growth process that reflects on life and changing lifestyles.