PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Angeliki Florou
AU  - Christos T. Papadas
AU  - Maria Berikou
AU  - Konstantinos Syrigos
AU  - Ioannis Gkiozos
AU  - Christina Gratziou
TI  - Smoking cessation in patients with cancer under real life conditions
AID  - 10.1183/13993003.congress-2016.PA4598
DP  - 2016 Sep 01
TA  - European Respiratory Journal
PG  - PA4598
VI  - 48
IP  - suppl 60
4099  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/48/suppl_60/PA4598.short
4100  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/48/suppl_60/PA4598.full
SO  - Eur Respir J2016 Sep 01; 48
AB  - Although smoking cessation after diagnosis of cancer improves survival and quality of life almost half cancer patients continue to smoke. In this study we analyzed smoking cessation success, using Continuous abstinence Rate (CAR) and the factors affecting cessation in cancer patients in an outpatient clinic.Out of 1020 smokers, 83 had a history of various types of cancer.All smokers attended a 12 weeks program. CAR among cancer patients was 55.47% and in non cancer 67%. Chi-square tests show that at the 5% level of significance severe dependence and number of cigarettes are positively related with failure in smoking cessation. while sex and education were not found significant.The presence of cancer was found significant (p=0.032) with cancer patients having higher rate of failure.To better examine the significance of each factor without the influence of others and estimate its impact on cessation , we conducted logistic regression.Estimates include the odds ratios and marginal probability effects of independent variables.Inserting data of a particular patient into the model, the probability of cessation failure is obtained.The presence of cancer is not important now at 5% level but is important at p=0.076 (OR=1.52 and marginal probability effect=0.098).