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Abstract
Cigarette smoking remains one of the most common causes of preventable disease and premature death worldwide.
Smoking starts early in life lengthens the time spent smoking throughout one’s life and raises the burden of smoking-related diseases. Because of the increased availability of cigarettes and their close relationship with smoking peers, university students are at a higher risk of smoking. At the same time, when they start university, they will experience additional social, emotional, and academic challenges.
Cognitive Behavioural therapy is currently the most broadly applied behavioural intervention. CBT focuses on teaching strategies for dealing with both internal (e.g., cravings) and external (e.g., social pressures) cues to smoke (e.g., seeing other smokers)
The aim of the present work was:
- To evaluate the effectiveness of the CBT for smoking cessation and urges.
- To evaluate demographic and clinical profile of patients with good response rate for the CBT for smoking cessation.
- To evaluate the relation between smoking urges and abstinence among participants
Materials and methods
Participant and procedures
One hundred seventy five students were recruited from the outpatient clinics of the therapeutic units of Alexandria University in the period from March 2020 to March 2021, were invited to orientation session about the study. Of these, 146 students provided written informed consent to participate, and were randomly assigned to one of the two therapeutic groups: one group composed of (69) students were assigned to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for smoking cessation and another group: composed of (77) students were assigned to a minimal intervention involving basic health education information about smoking cessation. Randomization was performed using a simple randomization method through randomization tables.