Smoking Among Patients Who Applied to Family Practice Outpatients of an Hospital: Ankara Sample

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the socio-demographic variables and nicotine dependence levels of the patients who applied to the Family Medicine Outpatient Clinic. Methods: The convenience sampling method was used in this cross-sectional quantitative research. This research was carried out at D？？kap？ Y？ld？r？m Beyaz？t Training and Research Hospital Family Medicine Polyclinic between 01.02.2018 and 01.04.2018. Among the patients who applied to the outpatient clinic, interviews were conducted with those who accepted to participate in the study. The researchers obtained the data from the patients face to face. Demographic data form and Fagerstrom Nicotine Addiction Test (FNBT) were used for data collection. The data obtained were analyzed by SPSS v. 20 program and the purpose of the study was examined. Continuous variables are expressed as mean or standard deviation, categorical variables are expressed as frequency and percentage. p<0.05 value was determined as the significance level. Results: During the interviews with 177 patients; 97 (54.8%) male and 80 (45.2%) female. The mean age of the patients was 39 and there was no significant difference between the genders. Eight of the patients (46.9%) had never smoked, 26 (14.7%) had previously smoked, but 66 (37.3%) had been smoking and 2 had passive smoking. stated. The mean age of starting smoking was 18 and there was no significant difference between the genders (p> 0.05). There was no significant difference in nicotine dependence scores between males and females (p> 0.05). Of the 66 patients who were smoking, 25% were mildly nicotine-dependent, 36.4% were moderate nicotine-dependent, 34.8% were severe nicotine-dependent and 3% were very severe nicotine-dependent. A significant relationship was found between sex and smoking status and males were more frequently compared to females (p <0.05). There was a correlation between daily smoking and smoking age. There was no significant relationship between sex and daily smoking (p> 0.05). While 72% of smokers thought to quit smoking, 28% stated that they did not intend to quit. Conclusion: ？n this study where smoking status of the patients were examined there was no significant difference between sex and addiction level in this study. When smoking intensity is observed among males and females, smoking is more common among males. While 60% of men smoke, this rate is 26% in women. The majority of smokers stated that they wanted to leave