Smoking Behaviors’ Effects on Male Respondents’ Depression: A Survey Analysis in The Chittagong Region

Ainual Alam Shagor1, Al Murad Tahan2, Punam Mutsuddi3 & Md. Ashraful Islam4
1,2Department of Business Administration, Port City International University, Chattogram, Bangladesh.
3,4Department of Natural Science, Port City International University, Chattogram, Bangladesh
DOI – http://doi.org/10.37502/IJSMR.2024.7909

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Abstract

There is controversy regarding weather smoking reduces depression among males. The study aimed to investigate the statement of smoking habit due to remove depression among male person in Chittagong region. The primary data was collected through a Google Form and Cronbach’s Alpha was used to determine the reliability of the study. We conducted a qualitative method to see the result that we aim to gather what people’s thoughts about smoking habit due to removing depression from their experience. We had use Descriptive Statistics and Chi-square test for the analysis. Based on the survey and by analyzing total 258 sample data we got the result that smoking could give temporary pleasure but not permanent treatment to stress. Smokers are not happy with smoke and despite of reducing depression, it increasing stress more.

Keywords: Smoking, Anxiety, Qualitative method, Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test.

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