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Effectiveness Of Thailand National Quitline Services: A Gender Analysis(ผลของบริการเลิกบุหรี่ของศูนย์บริทารเลิกบุหรี่ทางโทรศัพท์แห่งชาติ : การวิเคราะห์แยกเพศ), Suwimon Rojnawee, Jintana Yunibhand, Orrawan Khongtor

Journal of Nursing Science Chulalongkorn University (วารสารพยาบาลศาสตร์)

Purpose: To study demographic characteristics, smoking behaviors, differentiation between gender and smoking behaviors and quit rate among smokers calling Thailand National Quitline (TNQ)Design: Quasi-experimental studyMethods: The 650 smokers who called TNQ during September 2016 to February 2017 were voluntary assigned into three interventions; 1) text to quit (n=143), 2) telephone counseling (n=121), and 3) text to quit and telephone counseling (n=386), and set quit date within next 30 days. Data collection was done by telephone interviewing. Descriptive analysis for the demographic data indicated that most of subjects were male (85.85%), 25-44 years old (43.38%), smoked 11-20 cigarettes per day (55.69%). …