Kebiasaan Merokok di Kalangan Remaja di Yogyakarta

Background: The biggest smoking behavior is begins in adolescence and increased become regular smokers over the past few years. Smoking could continue to be habit for the emergence of perception which is smoking is a pleasant behavior and there is a desire to repeat it (conditioning), and gradually turned into a dependency without realizing about that. Dependence or obsessive activity is described as a pleasure that can affect or giving pshychological in individual�s terms. While the psychological satisfaction is the biggest factor to affect smoking behavior in adolescence. Objective: This study aimed to knowing the habit of smoking in adolescents in terms of surrounding environment aspects and their knowledge about the effects of smoking for their health. Methods: This research is a descriptive study with crosssectional design, which is a type of research that emphasizes the time of measurement and observation data variables only once at a time.The method used is descriptive method to determine the smoking habit in Yogyakarta. Results: Boys more dominate with ever consumed a ciggarete as many 1-9 ciggarete a day where the most of initial source of information is obtained from permitted friendship for boys and from parents for girls. Peer group is an important factor in smoking activity, besides the lack of parental supervision also being a trigger which can develop into habit. Coupled with initial knowledge about smoking from an earlier age who seen from their parents or close family. Smoking activity have done in out of school area. The majority of their reasons to smoke, because a negative feeling, the anger. Their knowledge about the effect caused by smoking is good, in fact it affect them to stop smoking. Conclusion: most respondents had consumed cigarette and still classified in light smokers