A Study on Comparison of Current and Past Tobacco Smokers in Kenya and the Reasons Behind the Later Quitting

摘要

A lot of studies have been done on smoking tobacco but a lot of emphasis have been on the current smokers and very little has been done on the past smokers. The past smokers can give us a better direction in determining the most effective method that can help the current tobacco smokers quit smoking. It is therefore the purpose of this research paper to find out from past tobacco users, the age at first initiation into smoking, how long they smoked, and how long it took them to quit smoking. The study also aims to find out the smoking pattern of the past smokers, and compare it with the smoking pattern of the current smokers and find out whether there is any. The two patterns of smoking include the daily smoker and the less than daily smoker patterns.