Becoming a Novice Smoker: Initial Smoking Behaviours among Jor danian Psychiatric Nurses

Authors

Khaldoun Aldiabat, University of Northern British ColumbiaFollow
Michael Clinton, American University of Beirut

Abstract

A better understanding of how male Jordanian psychiatric nurses become smokers and continue the habit mainly at work is necessary if smoking reduction and cessation programs are to help them better manage their smoking behaviours. Here we use a grounded theory approach to describe the factors that influenced the eight nurses in our sample to take up smoking. We use five categories derived from open coding to explain the initial stage in the smoking histories of the nurses. We situate our account of " becoming a novice smoker" within the contextualizing smoking behaviours over time theory we developed from our study. Finally, we relate the substantive findings we report here to the theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and transtheoretical theory .

Keywords

Smoking, Symbolic Interactionism, Grounded Theory, Male Jordanian Psychiatric Nurses, Trans - Theoretical Change Model, Addiction

Publication Date

6-2-2013

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2013.1513

Recommended APA Citation

Aldiabat, K., & Clinton, M. (2013). Becoming a Novice Smoker: Initial Smoking Behaviours among Jor danian Psychiatric Nurses. The Qualitative Report, 18(22), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2013.1513