Investigating the Effect of Health Promotion Programs with Emphasis on Non-Smoking

Introduction: Substance abuse is currently a crippling problem worldwide. The hindering effect it has upon the development and prosperity of each society has turned it into a serious threat. Drug addiction and abuse are considered as recurring and chronic disorders with biological, cultural, mental, social, behavioral, and intellectual consequences.Methods: Present study investigates the impact of health promotion programs upon smoking cessation. The statistical population consisted of the teenagers and the youth of district 12 of Tehran City. Pre-test and post-tests were applied for experimental and control groups, each of which included 20 participants. Researcher-constructed questionnaire was used for data gathering. Data analysis was conducted through SPSS20.Findings: Analysis of Cognitive-Therapy Co-Variance and its Effect on Health Promotion Scores show that Mean Square in pre-test sample and fallow-up was 7854/365 and 5632/845 and in post-test and follow-up was 4785/123 and 2865/563, that show a significant relationship between the pre-test and post-test and follow-up scores. Mean Square in post-test and follow-up for Effectiveness of Health Promotion Programs on Smoke cessation with 39 degree of freedom was 730/58 and 746/420. Co-variance analysis results showed that the improvement in wrong beliefs is permanent.Conclusion: Research findings revealed that onetime and recurrent health promotion programs have significant impacts upon smoking cessation of the teenagers and the youth. Since drug abuse is a motivational disorder, educational programs and improving the life condition for treating drug abuse is highly recommended.

کلیدواژه ها:

Educational Programs ، Health Promotion ، Substance Abuse ، Chronic Disorders ، Social Problem.