I - INTRODUCTION
Smoking is becoming a big problem. Smoking can cause bad cancer, and many people have died because of the cancer. They start smoking for different reasons. Most people start smoking because of too much stress or because friends smoked. For young people, “Once people start smoking, they are likely to get along with the crowd.” (Smoking, 1998, para. 2). So there are many reasons for people to start smoking. However, if a person has been smoking for some time, it will be hard for this person to quit unless this person went to programs for training. Smoking causes a huge problem to our environment. It also effects the education for students. Some programs can really help smokers stop, and smokers are often stopped for a period of time. Then they always start smoking again. So I think people choose some more other ways to quit smoking, such as nicotine gum, cold turkey and so on. For so many reasons many diseases can affect a second hand smoker very quickly and a lot of second- hand-smokers died earlier than smokers. People think that smoking is relaxing for them, but it is really dangerous for their health. So the reasons for smoking make people think that they are right when they are smoking.
II - PURPOSE
The main purpose for us to do the survey is to know more about smoking. We wanted to know are there females or males who had more smokers. And we also wanted to know some smoking-habits of the people. We tried to find out why people started smoking and how they could quit smoking.
III – HYPOTHESIS
I guess that there would be more male smokers than female smokers because males always get more stress than that females get. Most of smokers smoke alone? They quit smoking just by themselves? There are too many strange questions for us to find out. We tried to find some ways for people to quit smoking; they gave us some such as some nicotine gums or patch, cold turkey or training program to make them quit smoking as soon as possible.
IV – MATERIALS
We made eight questions on a survey so we could ask more people and get more information from the. And we didn’t just ask smokers; we also asked others that are not smokers. These questions were about where these people smoke, whether they were addicted or not, how they started and what the best ways for smokers to quit. So we wanted to know how smokers and non-smokers think about themselves.
V – METHODS
We asked about 40 people in the Student center and Faner. Some of them are students or people that are working in Student Center. We always had a good conversation and then I wait a while and fill out their answers on the paper. These questions were asked for everybody not only for CESL students. They answered my questions carefully and comfortably. So we did well in these survey and we asked many people. We were trying to find many people and we did.
VI--Data
See appendix B
VII—Results
According these chart, we can know that there are more male smokers than female smokers, there is about 78.9% people are male, and 21.1% are female smokers. It’s the same as what I guess before the survey. Friends smoke and too much stress cause them to start smocking. They both are 42.9% of all the reasons. From the chart, we can know. Different people have different ways to quit smoking. Such as cold turkey, nicotine gum or nicotine patch. While program of training is the most popular way for smokes to quit smoking. It’s about 39.5%. It’s closed to what we guess.
VIII—Conclusion and discussion
My hypothesis is very closed to the true thing. Because I have some friend that are smokers. So I can know more about them. Today, people get much busy than before and much more stressful. They are lonely. So people strart smoking to over come the hard time. However, it’s not healthy. So people have some ways to quit smoking. It’s a good choice to quit smoking.
Reference
Seal, B. (1998). Smoking. In Academic Encounters: Human behavior. pp. 31- 33. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
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