Abstract
This study was designed to develop the life moking cessation program with multidisciplinary approach
using the Bandura's theory of self-efficacy and confirm the effect of it on the self-efficacy and smoking
amount in college students. For this purpose non-equivalent control group, pretest-posttest design was used.
The participating subjects in this study were 46 male college freshmen, 23 in experimental and 23 in
control group. The experimental group received the 8 sessions of lecture and small group discussions for 4
weeks and a telephone coaching program for a period of 8 weeks. The control group received 5 sessions of
lecture without further treatments.
The data was collected from March 15 to June 11, 1999, and analysed by SAS/PC program with X2 test,
simple t, paired t test.
The results were as follows.
1. The score of self-efficacy was significantly increased over time in the experimental group than those of the
control group.
2. The amount of urine cotinine was decreased over time in the experimental group, number of cigarettes
smoked a day were significantly decreased, and they were significantly less than those of the control group.
In conclusion it was found that the Life Smoking Cessation Program with Multidisciplinary Approach was an
effective nursing intervention for increasing self efficacy and reducing the amount of smoking in male college
students. Therefore, future smoking cessation programs should always consider the concept of self-efficacy
and ways to positively reinforce it.