Abstract
Introduction: Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the world. Therefore it is essential that smokers quit smoking.
Aims and Objectives: Review the results obtained in a Tobacco Cessation Unit in 2010.
Material and Methods: Retrospective descriptive analysis of the results obtained from males who were attended in a Tobacco Cessation Unit from 1st. January to 31st. December 2010 and subsequent follow-up to complete a year.
Results: 314 of 462 patients (50,6% males). If we do not consider those who did not attend the second consultation, 158 patients started treatment (44,3% males) and only 71 (38,02% males) completed it. Mean age 49,86 years old, mean onset smoking age, 16,2 years old, and mean cigarettes/day, 25,83. Moderate nicotine dependence (Fagerstrom 5,93) and high motivation (Richmond 8,34). Severe comorbidity, especially respiratory, 31,4%, CVRF, 91,5%, and psychiatric, 32,9%. Different treatments used: Nicotine Replacement Therapy (TSN), bupropion (BUP), varenicline (VRN), many of them simultaneously or none of them. Of the 158 patients treated, continuous abstinence rates at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months follow up for males were 50%, 30%, 27,1% and 25,7%, respectively. Failure, considered as never abstinent, in 12 males (17,1%). About males´ relapses, 38,5% relapsed before the third month.
Conclusions: 1. Only 70 males started treatment. 2. Moderate nicotine dependence and subjective high motivation. 3. Severe comorbidity, especially CVRF. 4. Continuous abstinence rates at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months follow up were 50%, 30%, 27,1% and 25,7%, respectively, and failure in 17,1%. 6. 38,5% relapsed before the third month.
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