Categorize Smoking Situations on Daily Lives of Young Smoker.

Abstract

Abstract
　This study aimed to categorize smoking situations on daily lives of young smoker as well as states of “Withdrawal” and “Urge to Smoke” in each smoking situation. All participants (N = 22) took the cigarettes “after meal” and “refreshing” situations during six days of investigation. Most participants had smoked at such situations as “break time during work (N = 21)”, “being apart from non smoking area (N = 19)” and “need to have something in mouth (N = 19)”. In each situation, correlations of MPSS (Withdrawal and Urge to smoke) and QSU-Brief (Desire to Smoke and Negative Reinforcement) are calculated.
As results, QSU-Brief did not showed correlations with several withdrawals, however, there were significant positive correlations between “Strength of Urge to Smoke (MPSS)” and QSU-Brief in all situations. Addi-tionally, the correlations between “time spent with urge to smoke (MPSS)” and “Desire to Smoke” was dif-ferent each situation.
　These results showed that the profiles of “Withdrawal” and “Urge to Smoke” levels are specifically determined depending upon each smoking situation. Therefore, it is necessary to construct the coping strate-gies that are appropriated for the specific profiles of “Withdrawal” and “Urge to Smoke” levels regarding the smoking situations in supporting abstinent young smokers.