Prevalência da abstinência ao tabagismo entre os participantes de um projeto tratamento do tabagismo: enfoque multidisciplinar.

Abstract

Smoking is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the biggest public health problems, the main preventable cause of death and responsible for about 5 million deaths annually in the world. In this context, the SMOKING TREATMENT PROJECT: MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH (PTEM) aims to collaborate with public health, reducing the prevalence of smoking and, thus, acting actively in the prevention of diseases. Objective: to measure the prevalence of abstaining from smoking in patients assisted by the PTEM. Method: cross-sectional study cross-sectional study carried out through the analysis of clinical records of the participants of the PTEM, held at the University Hospital Alcides Carneiro (HUAC), in Campina Grande-PB. Results: 292 clinical records of the patients, the majority being female (72.6%), Catholic (74.0), brown (52.1%), married (46.6%). As for education, it was found that age average smoking initiation was lower in individuals with no formal education (13 vs 15 years). The frequency of cigarette use was higher among those without formal schooling and among those who were unable to quit smoking and those female individuals started smoking earlier. With With regard to abstinence, no statistically significant differences were observed. significant between socio-demographic variables. Conclusion: The percentage abstinence does not differ according to gender, marital status, education, respondents' professional activity and monthly family income. The treatment employed by PTEM, using combined therapy, reached rates of abstinence similar to those found by other similar studies registered in the current literature, whose effectiveness is shown to be superior to that of treatment with the drug used alone.