THE ROLE OF PEER FRIEND WITH THE USE OF ELECTRIC CIGARETTES IN TEENAGERS IN SMK WIDYA PARAMITRA BENGKONG

Abstract

Indonesia is one of the countries with a large number of smokers. The results of the 2013 Basic Health Research stated that the smoking behavior of the Indonesian population aged 15 years and over still had not decreased from 2007 to 2013, tending to increase from 34.2 percent in 2007 to 36.3 percent in 2013. The existence of smoking behavior and seeing the danger of smoking is quite high, making the emergence of technological innovations in terms of smoking with electronic cigarette products. The design of this study used an analytic descriptive descriptive design with a cross sectional approach conducted in Widya Paramitra Bengkong Vocational High School. Test data analysis using Chi Square test. The population of this study were all 11th and 12th grade students. The sample of this study were 40 respondents with sampling techniques using purposive sampling. The research tool is a questionnaire sheet. When the study was conducted in July.The results of the study were obtained from the highest number of peers who played as many as 23 people (57.5%), the use of electronic cigarettes using 20 people (50%). From the data analysis using the chi square test statistic test shows the p value of 0.001 <0.05 means that Ho is rejected, there is a relationship between the role of peers with the use of electronic cigarettes in adolescents in the Widya Paramitra Vocational School. This research is expected to be an input for the school in order to provide regular counseling and warnings about the dangers of electric smoking to students and to motivate the importance of quitting smoking.