Al-Nimr Yumn M, Farhat Ghada, Alwadey Ali
Department of Public Health, Ministry of Heath, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J. 2020 Feb;20(1):e95-e99. doi: 10.18295/squmj.2020.20.01.014. Epub 2020 Mar 9.
Smoking is one of the most adaptable risk behaviours associated with increased mortality rates, yet over one billion individuals worldwide are smokers. This study aimed to examine self-reported reasons for starting and quitting smoking among women attending smoking cessation clinics in Saudi Arabia.
This cross-sectional study took place between January 2014 and January 2017 in Saudi Arabia using previously collected data. A survey was distributed to 3,000 female smokers attending smoking cessation programmes in 18 clinics from different regions in Saudi Arabia to determine self-reported reasons for smoking initiation and willingness/unwillingness to quit.
A total of 2,190 women participated in the study (response rate = 73%). Overall, the most common reason for starting to smoke was friends (31.1%), while the predominant reason for willingness to quit was health concerns (45.5%). The most frequent reason for being unwilling to quit smoking was a fear of mood changes (28%).
Most Saudi women are socially-driven to start smoking, while the most common reason for quitting is health concerns. The latter finding is promising in that it shows that smokers are gaining awareness of the adverse effects of smoking.
吸烟是与死亡率上升相关的最易形成的风险行为之一，然而全球有超过10亿人吸烟。本研究旨在调查沙特阿拉伯戒烟诊所中女性自我报告的开始吸烟和戒烟的原因。
这项横断面研究于2014年1月至2017年1月在沙特阿拉伯进行，使用先前收集的数据。对沙特阿拉伯不同地区18家诊所参加戒烟项目的3000名女性吸烟者进行了一项调查，以确定自我报告的开始吸烟的原因以及愿意/不愿意戒烟的情况。
共有2190名女性参与了该研究（应答率=73%）。总体而言，开始吸烟最常见的原因是朋友（31.1%），而愿意戒烟的主要原因是对健康的担忧（45.5%）。不愿意戒烟最常见的原因是害怕情绪变化（28%）。
大多数沙特女性开始吸烟是受社交因素驱动，而戒烟最常见的原因是对健康的担忧。后一项发现很有希望，因为它表明吸烟者正在逐渐意识到吸烟的不良影响。
