title: Relationship between smoking habit and sociodemographic factors.
abstract: The main purpose of conducting this study is to investigate the sociodemographic factors influencing the initiation of smoking habit in Al-Madinah city. A representative random sample was selected from different sectors in Al-Madinah region including government directorates employees, hospitals physicians, school students and others. Data were collected by a self administered questionnaire and analyzed by using the computer system. The results revealed that age, marital status, number of children and family smoking were significant influencing factors for initiating smoking habit, however, no significant relationships were found between smoking habit and education or monthly income. Our findings showed that about 80% of the smokers were cigarette smokers and 72% of them have tried to quit smoking but failed to do so, the reasons of failure were attributed to social and psychological stresses in 63% of cases. Our data also showed that friends and imitation of adults (51.2%) were the main reasons for initiating smoking habit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community and Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Ain Shams University.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El-Gewaily
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004522:Educational Status; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000208:ethnology; D006184:Habits; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D009790:Occupations; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014504:Urban Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*