Revealing the results of the survey, Thai workers smoke 20.5%, smoke 1 10 cigarettes / day, try to quit, but fail to reach 59% Health protection for more than 300,000 workers, helping more than 4,000 workers quit smoking, flagging and expanding smoke free factories in the provinces. Develop a referral system for counseling and smoking cessation therapy
On October 5, at Amari Don Muang Airport Hotel, Mr. Pongsak Thongratana, Director of the Organizational Health Support Office Office of the Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) said at the opening ceremony of the seminar “Facts about smoking of workers and the development of smoke free establishments to satisfy entrepreneurs” that NESDB supports the Environmental Quality Improvement Association. Implemented a project to promote health promotion of workers in the workplace since 2008 to develop and promote concrete smoking control in the workplace. At present, enterprises are increasingly aware of the importance of controlling health risk factors, especially tobacco and alcohol. They have been able to develop 2,000 smoke free establishments, protect the health of more than 300,000 workers from tobacco smoke, and help them quit smoking more successfully. 4,000 people, while the latest survey from the National Statistical Office in 2019 found that 21% of the working age population smokes the highest in order to reduce the smoking rate of Thai people. It is necessary to reduce the smoking rate of the working age population.
“In the next phase of expansion, NESDB will accelerate and encourage more entrepreneurs in the provinces. by creating a mechanism for entrepreneurs to access various assistance that help prevent and control smoking of workers such as tools, media, smoking cessation service system and a referral system for successful smoking cessation By integrating other health promotion work issues of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and expanding the network to work with the Happy Workplace network of more than 10,000 agencies, it will help to work more efficiently,” said Mr. Pongsak.
Dr. Sansanee Keeratiwiriyaporn The project manager for promoting health promotion of workers in the workplace said that they surveyed the situation and smoking behavior of workers in the workplaces participating in the project. Jan. May. 2022 found that 20.5% of workers in the establishment smoke, males smoke higher than females. The higher educated workers smoked less cigarettes than the lower educated workers. Most of the workers, 56%, started smoking aged 16 20 because they wanted to try and smoke with friends. 77% smoke factory cigarettes (1 10 cigarettes per day), only 8% smoke both factory cigarettes and e cigarettes. Sources were found in local shops and convenience stores, with 70% of smoking being found at work, 87% of whom smoked in the company provided areas and 13% of smoking in the no smoking areas, where smoking was seen in the ban. 21% smoked and 79% of workers thought to quit.
Dr. Sansanee continued that the reason for the decision to quit smoking was that the family wanted to quit. and concerned about health While there were still some unsuccessful attempts to quit smoking, 59% of them tried to quit one to three times by quitting themselves. Do not seek advice from the smoking cessation service agency. By using the raw deduction method, followed by reducing the number of cigarettes smoked. The reason
why the quitting failed was because he was unable to overcome the habit. and seeing others smoke and wanting to smoke It is used in the planning, implementation and design of activities to help self smoke establishments correctly. and help government agencies to develop effective plans to help people quit smoking
