Attempt to quit smoking by electronic cigarette use among smoking adolescents in Korea
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Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of
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Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Department of Public Health Science, Korea, Republic of
Publication date: 2018-03-01
Tob. Induc. Dis. 2018;16(Suppl 1):A952
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Background:
Adolescent smoking has remained a major challenge. With
strengthening of tobacco control policy, smoking rates have consistently
declined over the past decade. In contrast, the use of electronic cigarette
increased because companies promoted the e-cigarette as smoking cessation aid.
There is a controversy whether e-cigarettes have an effect on quitting smoking.
This study examines whether e-cigarette is effective as a smoking cessation
aid.
Methods:
This study used Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based
Surveys(KYRBS) in 2015 ∼ 2016. For analysis, types of smokers were categorized
into 2 groups; cigarette only user and dual user. Experience of attempting to
quit smoking was used as the response variable. To examine the association
between attempt to quit smoking and e-cigarette use among cigarette smoker, frequency
analysis, Chi-square test and logistic regression were used.
Results:
The lower school performance, the higher the weekly
allowance, the more alcohol they drink and stress perceived, the more smoking friends,
the higher was the frequency of attempt to quit smoking among dual users. As
the smoking amount increases, the proportion of attempt to smoking cessation increased
among dual users. The association of smoking cessation among dual user versus
cigarette only user by frequency was 2.30 (95% CI = 1.76-3.00) at 20-29 days.
When smoking 6-9 amount a day, the association of attempt to smoking cessation
was the highest(OR=2.04 95% CI = 1.90-2.64).
Conclusions:
As cigarette use increased, attempt to smoking
cessation was also higher. Cigarette smoking days were higher in dual users
even though they tried to quit smoking. It means e-cigarette actually works in synergy
with the use of smoking conventional cigarettes and has little effect on
smoking cessation. To prevent the spread of misguided cessation culture in
social experience such as part-time work and smoking friends, proper education
on smoking cessation is necessary.