Open AccessPsychosocial factors associated with reverse smoking: A qualitative research
Author(s) -
G Harini,
KV Krishnam Raju,
D. V. S. Kiran Raju,
K Kalyan Chakravarthy,
S Nagasri Kavya
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international society of preventive and community dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2250-1002
pISSN - 2231-0762
DOI - 10.4103/2231-0762.195521
Subject(s) - habit , psychosocial , snowball sampling , psychology , clinical psychology , qualitative research , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , psychiatry , pathology , social science , sociology
Reverse smoking is a peculiar form of smoking in which the smoker puts the lit end of the cigarette into the mouth and then inhales the smoke. There may be many predisposing factors that influence an individual to cultivate this habit, of which psychosocial habits could be the predominating factor. Hence, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the psychosocial factors that influence an individual to undertake this peculiar habit of reverse smoking.