Counseling Effect on Smoking Cessation Behavior in Junior High School Students

The prevalence of smoking habits among children and adolescents has in creased quantitative and qualitative, which further elevates the risk of dis eases. Furthermore, the 2014 Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) (data showed the intention to quit smoking by 88.2% of students, although only 24% received assistance in affiliated programs; hence support is required from the immediate environment. Therefore, the purpose of this research, was to deter mine the effect of counseling in the success of smoking cessation in junior high school students. The research design used was a prospective cohort. The sub jects of this research include all junior high school students with the smoking habit, of which 40 participants were selected. These respondents were pro vided with smoking cessation counseling for six sessions (4 months). Survival analysis was used to evaluate the data collected. After the six counseling ses sions, the cessation success and failure rates were 75% and 25%, respectively.