Associação entre etilismo, outras drogas psicoativas e comorbidades em uma população de usuários de um programa de tratamento do tabagismo em Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

Objective: To observe a probable association between alcoholism and smoking in users of the Multidisciplinary Smoking Treatment Program (PMTT) in Campina Grande-PB Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out using PMTT patient records data from January 2013 to December 2017. Data was tabulated in a spreadsheet in the Microsoft Office Excel® program. An inferential analysis was performed in a computational environment R (version 3.4.1) and the significance level of 5% (p <0.05) was adopted for acceptance of the null hypothesis. Results: The percentage of ex-alcoholics (43.0%) prevailed, compared to current alcoholics (35.7%) and non-alcoholic (21.3%). Among the drinkers, the percentage of light drinkers predominated (21.8%), followed by moderate (8.8%) and heavy drinkers (5.1%). In all groups there was a predominance of females, whose percentage was higher in the non-alcoholic group (89.0%) and the current light alcoholic group (66.7%). Among male users, a higher percentage was observed among current heavy users (63, 9%). In relation to the age of onset of smoking, the range between 10 and 17 years prevailed, with 64%, 59.9% and 54.9% for current non-alcoholics, ex-alcoholics and alcoholics, respectively. The highest number of cigarettes smoked was observed among the current alcoholics (62.9%), when compared to exalcoholics (55.9%) and non-alcoholics (45%) group heavy drinkers (72.3%). The highest percentage of use of other psychoactive drugs was observed in the current alcoholics (12.2%), as opposed to the ex-alcoholics (9.9%) and non-alcoholic (3.3%); Current alcoholics the heavy (25.1%) prevailed. The prevalence of the selfreported diagnosis of Diabetes mellitus was higher among ex-alcoholics (10%), followed by current alcoholics (8.3%) and non-alcoholics (6.6%); among the current alcoholics, the heavy (19.4%) obtained a higher percentage. The prevalence of the self-reported diagnosis of Systemic Arterial Hypertension was higher among exalcoholics (30.1%) in contrast the Current alcoholics (24%) and non-Alcoholics (23.5%); among the current alcoholics, heavy (33.3%) had the highest percentage. Conclusion: There exist to be an association between alcoholism and smoking, alcoholism, smoking and use of other psychoactive drugs; Diabetes mellitus, smoking and alcoholism.