Keun-Mi Lee,Keun-Mi Lee, Seung-Pil Jung

Department of Family Medicine, Yeungnam University Medical Center, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Korea


Background: Since 2015, Smoking cessation program have been provided by the local smoking cessation sup- port center in Korea. This program consisted of a 5-days of residential smoking cessation program and an in- patient program. This article is to assist smokers to quit smoking by analyzing and comparing the success fac- tor in smoking cessation from the two different programs.
Methods: This study was conducted with a total of 996 participants from the residential smoking cessation pro- gram and the inpatient program, from January 2018 to December 2020 at the University Hospitals. Based on the registration card information, we did a retrospective research. Success defines that the smoking cessation continued after 6 months of program participation when it is confirmed by urine cotinine test or phone consultation. The outcome of this study was performed by cross-tabulation analysis and regression analysis.
Results: The findings show that the expected value of success in smoking cessation is higher as the subject is older in their age (P<0.05 in 60s or older), and more frequent consultations (P<0.01) in both programs. The nic- otine dependency (P<0.01), social security system (P<0.01), and drinking experience (P=0.01) showed a meaningful correlation to success in smoking cessation in the residential program.
Conclusions: It is required to improve the smoking cessation program to active intervention with frequent con- sultations when providing these two programs.