Characteristics of adolescents who smoke daily

The purpose of this study was to examine the general, smoking-related, and mental health characteristics of adolescents who smoke every day. The subjects of the study were 1,186 people who had smoked in the raw data of the smoking and drinking situation of students in 2021 surveyed by the Office of Education in B city. The collected data were statistically processed using the SPSS 27.0 program. The subjects' general, smoking-related, and mental health characteristics were analyzed by frequency and percentage, mean and standard deviation, and ANOVA. As a result of the study, high school students had a higher rate of daily smoking, and daily smokers had lower scores on subjective academic achievement and subjective health cognition, and the current use of heated e-cigarettes was high. Also, the ratio of the preparation phase was low in the smoking cessation change phase, and the ratio of quitting attempts and quitting success was also low. Regarding secondhand smoke, the ratio of daily smoking among students exposed to secondhand smoke at home, school, and public places was higher, and the stress perception and depression and impulsiveness scores of adolescents who smoked every day were higher. It is necessary to develop an educational program for smoking prevention and cessation by including daily smoking-related characteristics as intervention factors.