• Ms. Puja Atmaram Mhalatkar

ABSTRACT Background: Smoking is the harmful habits which are increasing day by day. cigarette smoking threatening non-smoker as well as smoker is one of the considerable factors in millions of people’s loss of their life in the world each year. Aim: To assess the knowledge of cigarette smoking among adolescent boys. Objective: 1. To assess the pre-test level of knowledge regarding ill effects of cigarette smoking among adolescent boy. 2.To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding ill effects of cigarette smoking among adolescent boys. 3. To find out association between pre and post-test knowledge. Material and Method: The research approach used for the study was a Quantitative research approach, Descriptive study design was used for the study was conducted at a selected school kudal Sindhudurg. The sample size should be chosen with the help of Simple random sample. The data were collected by structured questionnaries. The data were analyzed using descriptive& inferential statistics. Result: The result shows that adolescent boys were grouped in three categories according to their knowledge scores as poor, average and good scores obtained in pre and post assessment. In pre-test majority of students 40 (80%) were in poor category, 9 (18%) students were in average category and 1(2%) student were in good category of Knowledge scores. Where as in post-test after planned teaching programme majority of 32(64%) students were in the category of average knowledge scores, 12 (24%) were in the category of good knowledge scores and 6 (12%) students were in the category of poor knowledge score. There was no significant association between sociodemographic variable and pre-test level of knowledge regarding ill effects of cigarette smoking among adolescent boys in selected school.

:- cigarette smoking, adolescent boys, Effectiveness, ill-effects.

""A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding ill effects of cigarette smoking among adolescent boys in selected school sindhudurg"", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no.g212-g237, January-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401626.pdf

""A study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding ill effects of cigarette smoking among adolescent boys in selected school sindhudurg"", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 1, page no. ppg212-g237, January-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2401626.pdf