Awareness and Needs of Smoking Cessation Services for Female Emotional Laborers, Parcel Delivery Workers, Transportation Workers, and Construction Workers in South Korea

Dahyeon Lee, Kang-Sook Lee (), Haena Kim, Yeonwoo Lee, Mi-Ji Lee, Hyunkyung Lee, Jun-Pyo Myong, Hyekyeong Kim and Jakyoung Lee
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Dahyeon Lee: Department of Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health and Healthcare Management, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea
Kang-Sook Lee: Department of Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health and Healthcare Management, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea
Haena Kim: Seoul Tobacco Control Center, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea
Yeonwoo Lee: Seoul Tobacco Control Center, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea
Mi-Ji Lee: Seoul Tobacco Control Center, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea
Hyunkyung Lee: Korean Association on Smoking or Health, Seoul 07238, Republic of Korea
Jun-Pyo Myong: Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea
Hyekyeong Kim: Department of Health Convergence, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul 03760, Republic of Korea
Jakyoung Lee: Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 22, 1-13

Abstract: Although South Korea has implemented various smoking cessation services, women who are emotional laborers, as well as parcel delivery, transportation, and construction workers, have poor access to these services. This study evaluated the smoking-related characteristics of workers in these four occupations as well as the awareness of and need for smoking cessation services. In total 808 workers in these four occupations aged 19 years and above were recruited nationwide and had their data analyzed. The participants’ age, marital status, number of work hours per week, job-related stress, age when they started smoking, average number of cigarettes a day, types of tobacco products, close relationships to others who smoke, number of attempts to quit smoking, plans to quit smoking, awareness of cessation services, prior utilization of cessation services, and need for cessation services were surveyed. Compared with parcel delivery workers, female emotional laborers and transportation and construction workers had more attempts to quit smoking, plans to quit smoking, and prior utilization of smoking cessation services, moreover, construction workers had a significantly lower awareness of smoking cessation services. Parcel delivery workers need smoking cessation programs, mobile applications to help them quit smoking, and improvements in their work environments. Cessation services and education should be promoted at workplaces and among managers.

Keywords: smoking cessation services; female emotional laborers; parcel delivery workers; transportation workers; construction workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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