RODRIGUES FILHO, F. M.; SARMENTO, H. P.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0786054034555459; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2290947131921017; RODRIGUES FILHO, Francisco Maurício.; SARMENTO, Higo Pinto.
Resumen:
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.