Smoking Intervention Program For Male Secondary School Students

Background: The smoking intervention program was conducted for 27 students in
the study group and also controlled by another 27 students aged 14-18 years in male
secondary schools. This study aimed to develop a smoking intervention program for male
secondary school students. The study sample was systematic random sample technique.
Students in the study group were divided into 5 groups each group consisted of 6 students.
The program conducted in two days per week for three weeks in 12 hours, 8 hours theory
and 4 hours practice or each group. The pre and post-test design to evaluate the program.
The results found that the minority of the study group and the control group (3.7%) drink
alcohol and take illicit drugs. 74.1% of the study group and 96.3% of the control group were
moderately dependent on nicotine before the program. An equal percent of both the study
and the control group (92.6%) had unsatisfactory knowledge about smoking before the
program while all of the study had a good knowledge immediate the implementation of the
program and 96.3% of them had a good knowledge after 3 months from the program. In the
other hand the majority of the control group still had unsatisfactory knowledge about
smoking immediate and after 3 months from the program. Only 7.7 % from the study
succeeds to quit. Thence the study recommended that educational program about how to deal
with smokers and non- smokers' students should be performed for the parents, school nurse
and teachers.