Table 3 Percentage distribution of smoking cessation among monks and novices
From: Smoking prevalence, determinants, knowledge, attitudes and habits among Buddhist monks in Lao PDR
| Â | Total | |
|---|---|---|
Variables | N | % |
Want to quit smoking | Â | Â |
   Yes | 84 | 97.7 |
   No | 2 | 2.3 |
Tried to quit smoking within last year | Â | Â |
   Yes | 66 | 76.7 |
   No | 20 | 23.3 |
How long did you stop smoking | Â | Â |
   ≤ 1 month | 31 | 47 |
   1 – 5 months | 28 | 42.4 |
   6 – 11 months | 4 | 6.1 |
   1 year | 2 | 3 |
   2 years or longer | 1 | 1.5 |
Methods used to quit smoking | Â | Â |
   'Cold turkey' | 8 | 18.2 |
   Drug therapy | 2 | 4.5 |
   Weaning | 34 | 77.3 |
   Others | 22 | 50 |
Received advice to quit smoking | Â | Â |
   Yes | 43 | 65.2 |
   No | 23 | 34.8 |
Person giving advice to quit smoking (Multiple response) | Â | Â |
   Doctor/Nurse | 7 | 53.8 |
   Lay people | 13 | 22.4 |
   Fellow monks | 21 | 36.2 |
   Media | 4 | 6.9 |
   Others | 20 | 34.5 |
Primary reason for quitting smoking | Â | Â |
   Illness (at or before time of quitting), | 19 | 22.1 |
   Healthy, but wanted to prevent illness | 35 | 40.7 |
   Seeing Illness develop in other smokers | 11 | 12.8 |
   Family Disapproval | 5 | 5.8 |
   Not enough money to buy tobacco | 2 | 2.3 |
   Disapproval of friends and co-workers | 2 | 2.3 |
   Don't know/refuse to answer | 12 | 14.0 |
Reason not to quit smoking | Â | Â |
   Don't know how | 31 | 36 |
   Just don't want to | 5 | 5.8 |
   No advice | 5 | 5.8 |
   Others | 45 | 52.3 |