Assessment of Smoking Self-Efficacy in Two Groups of South Dakota Nurses: Former Smokers and Smokers Who Have Tried to Quit

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Cigarette smoking is a behavior that plagues a number of the general population. The number of nurses in the U.S. who smoke has consistently declined over the years, but remains at 15% which is higher than the 12%goal set for the general population by the Healthy People2010. This comparative descriptive study sent a mailed questionnaire to gather data from randomly selected South Dakota registered nurses to examine smoking prevalence and to determine the level of smoking self-efficacy among nurses who are current smokers and nurses who were smokers and successfully quit smoking. Fourteen percent of survey respondents currently smoke and93% of the current smokers reported that they had attempted to quit smoking at least once. It was also reported that 83-85% of these two groups of registered nurses had started smoking prior to nursing school. The Smoking Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (SEQ-20) was utilized to measure the level of self-efficacy between the two groups of RNs. This study reve

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