ATTITUDE OF PERPETUAL HELP COLLEGE OF MANILA LEVEL 3 STUDENT NURSES TOWARDS SMOKING Objectives of the Study The main

purpose of this is to know the attitude of Perpetual Help College of Manila student nurses towards smoking. Specifically, this study answers the following questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. What are the attitudes of PHCM student's nurses toward smoking? a. favorable b. unfavorable What are the attitudes of male and female student nurses toward smoking? What are the attitudes of regular and second courser students toward smoking? What is the influence of smoking on the academic and clinical performance of the student in PHCM College of nursing? What will PHCM do for student nurse to stop smoking? a. Prohibit smoking inside the campus, or within the parameter of 200m away from school. b. Fine of 100 pesos when caught of smoking. c. Make an incident report when caught of smoking while on school or clinical area.

Assumptions 1. 2. 3. Male and Female student nurses possess different attitude toward smoking. Everyone is entitled to choose his or her own recreational activities. Each school has certain ways to prevent unnecessary misdoing inside the school campus.

Theoretical Framework Smoking has been practiced in one form or another since ancient times. Perception surrounding smoking has varied over time and from one place to another; holy and sinful, sophisticated and vulgar, a panacea and deadly health hazard. Only recently, and primarily in industrialized Western countries, has smoking come to be viewed in a decidedly negative light. Today medical studies have proven that smoking is among the leading causes of diseases such as stenosis, lung cancer, heart attacks and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and can also lead to birth defects. The well-proven health hazards of smoking have caused many countries to institute high taxes on tobacco products and anti-smoking campaigns are launched every year in an attempt to curb smoking. The reasons given by smokers for this activity are broadly categorized as "addictive smoking", "pleasure from smoking", "tension reduction/relaxation", "social smoking", "stimulation", "habit/automatism", and "handling". There are gender differences in how much each of these reasons contribute, with females more likely than males to cite "tension reduction/relaxation", "stimulation" and "social smoking" A clear majority of alcoholics smoke. According to Evelyn Lutz1, between 80 and 95 percent of alcoholics smoke cigarettes, which is more than three times higher than among the population as a whole. Research has also shown that smokers with a history of alcoholism are more nicotine dependent than smokers with no such history, and suggests smoking cessation may prompt a relapse to drinking among a small number of smokers with a history of alcoholism. "This study refutes the common perception that smokers with a history of alcoholism have more difficulty quitting smoking and are likely to relapse back to alcoholism," said John R. Hughes2, professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study. "Our results suggest smokers with this history need to be encouraged to attempt to stop smoking." Hughes also said that for "for 85 percent of smokers with past alcoholism, quitting smoking is not a problem. Furthermore, as our findings indicate, we found smokers with past but not current alcoholism were able to quit as well and benefited from nicotine-patch treatment to the same degree as smokers without this history. ___________________________________________________ 1Evelyn Lutz, Philippine Journal of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, January-June 2006, pp.23 2John R. Hughes, Smoke Alarm, Volume 76, March-December 1998