2022 Volume 62 Issue 2 Pages 127-131
Smoking is affected by personality and is a big factor in asthma death. Therefore, interventions for smoking cessation, which focus on the personality related to smoking, may help to reduce the risk of death from bronchial asthma. However, the results of previous studies of personality related to smoking vary from study to study.
Previous studies have reported that depression encourages smoking, and smoking exacerbates depression. Depression also exacerbates bronchial asthma. Character is one of the constituent factors of suppressing depression. In this study, we compared the personality of smokers and nonsmokers with depression, examined the personality of smoking bronchial asthma patients, and effect of interventions for smoking cessation focusing on their personality.
From the results of this study, we found that smoking behavior is encouraged by continuous depression, since smokers with depression have a stronger closed and careless attitude toward the problem than nonsmokers, and tend to not solve the problem. From this result, we predicted that the bronchial asthma patient who smoke share the same personality. Therefore, it was considered that strengthening the attitude toward positive problem solving would prevent chronic depression and help to stop smoking.
