Information System Design on Tobacco Addiction Measurement Protocol for Smokers

Smoking habits in Indonesia has become a national health burden despite their huge contribution to national economics. With easy access to inexpensive cigarettes in Indonesia, the percentage of teenage smokers in Indonesia is very high. More than 70% of these smokers have tried to quit, but only approximately 5% have succeeded. These facts show the importance of developing precision stop smoking treatments. We proposed an information system design of smoking measurement questionnaire that is able to describe the characteristic differences between smokers and former smokers. This information system design was implemented in genetic service company’s web-based application and is expected to help us extract the necessary variables to help us finding biomarkers associated with smoking cessation in our future study. The information system design has been developed by combining and modifying questionnaires from previous studies. The focus is on strategic variables and the compactness of the questionnaire, and it can be used by other researchers to describe the smoking dependency of their samples. The information system design has been tested on pilot respondents/customers and shows results that meet our expectations.