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Data were collected between 1 August 2015 and 20 August 2018. Participants were administered more than nine face-to-face and telephone counseling sessions by trained tobacco cessation specialists for six months. Follow-up assessments were conducted at 4, 6, and 12 weeks, and 6 months after the quit date. A total of 3978 male college student smokers were enrolled; their mean age was 23.17 (\u00b13.45) years. Almost one-third of the participants (64.9%) reported that they had attempted to quit during the past year. The number of cigarettes smoked per day, CO ppm, and Fagerstr\u00f6m Test of Nicotine Dependence score at the baseline were negatively associated with abstinence, while motivational variables\u2014importance, confidence, and readiness\u2014were positively associated with abstinence. Our results suggest that provision of visiting smoking cessation services can be an active intervention platform for college student smokers who need professional assistance or support. 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Visiting a smoking cessation service may result in increased long-term abstinence rates in such students.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph16183363","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,12]],"date-time":"2019-09-12T10:56:06Z","timestamp":1568285766000},"page":"3363","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Predictors of Abstinence from Smoking: A Retrospective Study of Male College Students Enrolled in a Smoking Cessation Service"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6795-7542","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yeji","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Public Health, Graduate School, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea"},{"name":"Seoul Tobacco Control Center, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9879-0324","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kang-Sook","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Public Health, Graduate School, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea"},{"name":"Seoul Tobacco Control Center, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Haena","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Public Health, Graduate School, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea"},{"name":"Seoul Tobacco Control Center, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1519","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.38142.554479.AE","article-title":"Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years\u2019 observations of male British doctors","volume":"328","author":"Doll","year":"2004","journal-title":"BMJ"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"426","DOI":"10.1038\/sj.bjc.6602359","article-title":"Mortality from cancer in relation to smoking 50 years\u2019 observations of male British doctors","volume":"92","author":"Doll","year":"2005","journal-title":"Br. 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