Factors affecting the decision to quit smoking of the participants of a hospital-based smoking cessation program in Greece.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that affect people who are in the process of quitting smoking.

Methods: A randomly selected sample of 110 participants in a smoking cessation program (SCP) of a hospital in Thessaloniki Greece. Instruments of data collection were: i) the Demographic Data Lifestyle Questionnaire and ii) the Fragerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire.