Effects of the “Cut-Down Smoking” Program to Promote Smoking Cessation Behavior among Postman Smoker from the Central Portion of Thailand

Smoking is harm nearly every organ of the body, causes many diseases, and reduces the health of smokers in general. Smoking Cessation can promote lowers risk for smoking-related diseases. The objective of this study was to determine the before and after the intervention program of postman Smoker from the central portion in Thailand. The samples were separated into 2 groups by using the purposive random sampling. A total of 90 participants had 5 dropouts from intervention group and 10 dropouts from control group during a 1-month intervention program. So, there were 72 participants in the total who were finished the after measurements in this study. The postman smoker who were evaluated the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence score, and the quit smoking behavior at the baseline and after a 1-month intervention program. The inferential statistics was used to compare the differences between and within the group (independent t-test and paired sample t-test, respectively). The results revealed that the Fagerstrom scores in the intervention group was decreased significantly more than the control group (p<0.001) and the quit smoking behavior were increased significantly in the intervention group more than the control group (p<0.001) after a 1-months intervention program. Finally, the CutDown smoking program can promote the smoking cessation behavior and prevent its effects from smoking in the future.