Factors that exhort UMP students to smoke and their knowledge about bad effects from smoking.

Team 7:

Syed Muhamad Nabil bin Syed Hassan (KC 11068)

Nursaifullah bin Mat Nor(CA 11122)

Muhammad Khairul Abidin bin Safie(PC 10081)

WHO(1995) – 5 million people die from tobacco related diseases.

Smoking causes stroke, heart disease, miscarriage and lung cancer

Redhwan Ahmed Al- Naggar – most smokers start smoking during adolescence or early adult

Research Objectives

Factors leading students to start smoking

Tobacco related effects which can cause chronic diseases to smokers

MOH(2004) – 10000 death cases due to smoking and expected to increase up to

20% each year Khor(2005) – smoking is estimated to have caused more than half a million

coronary events in Malaysia

Article – Prevalence of Smoking and Associated Factors Among

Malaysian University Students (Redhwan Ahmed Al-Nagga, Sami Abdo Radman Al-Dubai, Thekra

Hamoud Al-Naggar, Robert Chen, Karim Al-Jashamy; 2011)

CHAPTER 3

• METHODOLOGY

the instruments or methods that will be used to conduct the study on factors leading student to smoking and bad effects from the habit.

UMP students in Gambang campus,will be done randomlyconsists of three parts • participants, • data collection • data analysis.

PARTICIPANTS

Conducted among UMP students 60 randomly selected students from every faculty here in

Gambang campus which is FKKSA, FKM, FKEE, FKASA, FSKKP, FIST and FKPPT regardless of student batch.

Observations at common areas ( HOSTEL,CAFE, AND FAKULTY)

DATA COLLECTION METHOD

to investigate the factors which lead or may lead students to smoke and also their knowledge on bad effects from it.

used which are questionnaire and observation.

1A: Survey Questionnaire

- A set of questions will be distributed randomly among students in UMP

- The survey questionnaire consists of 25 questions- The questionnaires is divided into three parts, which

is demographic, open-ended and close-ended questions

1B:OBSERVATION

-Are conducted to observe students that

smoke outside of class hours and also outside of the campus.

Data Analysis

• All the data that will be obtained from the survey questionnaire and observation wii be analyse using specific data analysis procedure

• All the data that will be obtained from the survey questionnaire and observation wii be analyse using specific data analysis procedure

CHAPTER 4 DATA ANALYSIS

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Does anyone in your household smoke?

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• Shows the number of respondents (students) who have members in their family that smokes in their home

• Based on our findings, it can be said that UMP students smoke mostly because of influence from family members which also are smokers.

10-12 years old 12-15 years old 15-17 years old 17-19 years old 19 and above0

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THE AGE START SMOKINGRE

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• Student started smoking when they were still in primary school. Awareness should be spread by the government not only to secondary schools but also primary schools as well. This can be done by having talks and exhibition on the bad effects of smoking at schools to educate primary students and prevent them from smoking.

guilty/feel bad don't care uncomfortable/annoyed by respondent

avoid smoking near them others0

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How respondent feels when the smoke from their cigarette is inhaled by others

• Of the big gap in the total respondents which do not care about others inhaling from their smoke, awareness should spread among students in the universities to educate them about second hand smoke and its effects which is just as devastating as smoking cigarette itself.

Yes No0

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Do smokers know about the bad ef-fects of smoking?

Many do not know the health risks and chronic diseases (lung cancer, heart diseases, stroke, erectile dysfunction) that come with smoking.

That’s why government obligate tobacco companies to place pictures of these diseases on every cigarette pack.

Some know about it, but do not buy the hype. The effects are long term, which does not kicks in until later age like 50 years old. They think they are the few lucky ones.

Stress27%

Frustration15%

Boredom16%

Lonely9%

Anger12%

Sadness10%

Need to concentrate

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Feelings Trigger Students to Smoke

StressFrustrationBoredomLonelyAngerSadnessNeed to concentrateWant to be like othersOthers

Stress comes from many aspects:

Study : eg; Low carrymarks/CGPA, deadlines, presentationLife: eg; Money, love relationships, pressure from parents, peer pressure

relaxation make more awake

focus more just a habit other0

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What people like most about smok-ing

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Related to previous graph . When you’re stress, you find ways to relax yourself.

Shortcut: cigarette, because it can be done anytime and anywhere.

Alternatives : playing sports, reading books, religious prayers, or as simple as opening up to someone.

CHAPTER 5 – CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

i - Main reason : STRESS!

ii - Other factors: influenced from families and friends.

iii - 27% agree that by smoking cigarette, it can give them relaxation from the stress and also calm their anger or frustration.

iv - Age started smoking : mostly 12-15 years old.

v - Students lack knowledge of bad effects from smoking to their health.

vi - They are unaware of the second hand smoke effects, which means they does not that people around them are exposed to same health risk as themselves.

Limitations of the study :

i - Not enough time.

ii - Some of the respondents gave inappropriate answers.

iii- Not many articles that SPECIFICALLY focus on the study of smoking among Malaysian university students.

iv - Too many open-ended questions.

Suggestions for further study :

i – Try to broaden it, include female respondents.

ii – Improve time management, better use of Gantt Chart.

iii – Innovate and improvise. Skype chatting instead of face to face meeting, saves time.

iv - Use more close-ended questions.

v – Choose title that has more resources (articles) so that more convenient.

THANK YOU!

ANY QUESTIONS?