A comparison between smokers and nonsmokers about the resilience and their attitudes towards coping with stress

In this study; compared groups who are smokers, get smoking cessation treatment and non-smoker about coping with stress strategies and level of resilience. The sample of this study consisted of already smoking and apply to Ege University Smoking Cessation Clinic for quit smoking 116, smokers 110, non-smoker 121 people. In this study, a personal information form prepared for the purpose of measure some variables like gender, age, education level, monthly income perception, marital status, living with the people and these people's smoking status as well as other substance using except smoking and alcohol, age at onset of smoking, reasons to start smoking, time of smoking. In addition to the personal information form; Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence, located three questions on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, Coping Style Questionnaire Short Form, Resilience Scale for Adults is located between the scales used. In the analysis of the obtained data as well as descriptive statistics Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U test were used. As a result of the findings reached by the multiple comparisons performed in the preceding three groups; coping styles with stress and the resilience variables were significantly different between the groups in certain dimensions. Moreover, in terms of level of resilience variables it has emerged as a significant difference between the groups with other participants and smokers.