TAN, Mehtap Atatürk Üniversitesi - Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi - İç Hastalıkları Hemşireliği AD, Turkey , ARIKAN, Duygu Atatürk Üniversitesi - Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi - Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Hemşireliği AD, Turkey , AKGÜN ŞAHİN, Zümrüt Atatürk Üniversitesi - Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi - İç Hastalıkları Hemş AD, Turkey , KARDAŞ ÖZDEMİR, Funda Kafkas Üniversitesi - Kars Sağlık Yüksekokulu, Turkey

The Effect Of Smoking Ban In Enclosed Places On Nursing Students Attitudes To Giving Up Smoking

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This study was conducted as a descriptive study to determine the effect of smoking ban in covered places on nursing students’ attitudes to giving up smoking. While the population of the study was composed of Ataturk University School of Nursing and Erzurum School of Health Services 154 students who were determined to have smoking habit constituted the sample. The data were collected with a form prepared by the researchers in prepared by the researchers making use of the relevant literature. For the statistical analysis of the data, SPSS 11.5 package program were used to show data distribution prepared. It was found that the average age of the students was 20.74±1.44, the average income was 307.79±123.50 TL, 22.7 % of the students were freshman, 43.5 % of them were sophomore, 13.0 % of them were junior, and 20.8 % of them were senior, 66.3 % of them stayed in dormitory, 70.3 % gave up smoking after the law. It was also found that 48.8 % of the students thought of giving up smoking, 23.7 % of them thought of giving up smoking because they thought smoking placed a financial burden on them, 62.3 % of them tried to give up smoking, 19.5 % of them had been trying to give up smoking for 1 month or less, and 64.0 % of them did not have support from their environment to give up smoking. Smoking habit was found to be an important problem especially for sophomore students. According to this study, it was determined that the smoking ban in cover places, which was issued according to the law was not deterrent for nursing students to give up smoking.

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Journal Of Anatolia Nursing an‎d Health Sciences

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