SMOKING STATUS IN PATIENTS APPLYING TO TERTIARY REFERRAL CHEST HOSPITAL- A CROSS

SECTIONAL STUDY

Mehmet Atilla UYSAL, Sedat ALTIN

Yedikule Hospital For Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery

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Background• Smoking (nicotine dependence) is a disease according

to International Disease Coding System.Health care providers have the primary responsibility to quit smoking or prevent relapses in ex-smokers or non-smokers.

• The patients should be questioned for their smoking history in all health care services.

• Only asking smoking history by a physician, gives 3-5% abstinence rate for one year.

Uysal MA, Dilmen N, Karasulu L, Demir T. Smoking habits among physicians in Istanbul and their attitudes regarding anti-smoking legislation. Tuberk Toraks 2007;55(4):350-5.

Surgeon General's Report—Reducing Tobacco Use 2000.2

Aim

We aimed to determine the patients’ smoking status and smoking related pulmonary diseases load in future in a tertiary

referral chest hospital.

Results and Method

156.153 patients were included into the study and were asked three questions by personnel who works at registration desk in the period of eight months (Between May and December 2007).

–Do you smoke?–Did you smoke?–Never smoker?

Results

• 77.793(49.8)% patients were female and 78.360 (50.2%) were male.

Results

• 55.122 (35.3%) patients were smokers

• 47.470 (30.4%) patients were ex-smokers

• 53.561 (34.3%) patients were non smokers.

Results

• Smokers and ex-smokers who smoke greater than three years were 95% (97.462).

• Smokers and ex-smokers who smoke greater than ten years were 82.5% (84.638).

Smoking History

35.3%

34.3%

30.4%

Smoking History-Gender

Smokers and Ex-smokers

% 65,7

% 34,3

Smoking Duration%

Smoking Amount%

Algorithm for treating tobacco use

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Tartışma

Uysal MA, Dilmen N, Karasulu L, Demir T. Smoking habits among physicians in Istanbul and their attitudes regarding anti-smoking legislation. Tuberk Toraks 2007; 55 (4): 350-5.

Uysal MA, Dilmen N, Karasulu L, Demir T. Smoking habits among physicians in Istanbul and their attitudes regarding anti-smoking legislation. Tuberk Toraks 2007; 55 (4): 350-5.

Conclusion• The smoking habits of the patients who apply to Chest Hospital were similar to our country’s average percentages.

• The most of them were smokers who smoke greater than 10 pack years.

• This results showed that tertiary referral chest hospitals might face very important and growing smoking related pulmonary diseases load in near future.