Tobacco use cessation: a retrospective analysis in a municipality in the metropolitan region of Rio Grande do Sul

• Autor(a) principal: da Rosa Lerner, Erick
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Clós Mahmud, Ibrahim, Aguiar Lenz, Cátia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Scientia Medica (Porto Alegre. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/scientiamedica/article/view/44721
• topic: tobacco use; Tobacco use Cessation; smoking; tobacco use cessation devices; smoking prevention; tabagismo; abandono do uso de tabaco; hábito de fumar; produtos para o abandono do uso de tabaco; prevenção do hábito de fumar

Introduction: Tobacco use is a major risk for noncommunicable diseases and one of the biggest illnesses in public health worldwide. The performance of Primary Health Care in the longitudinality of care favors the reception of smokers, awareness, and counseling for quitting this habit. Objectives: To analyze data about smoking cessation among integrants of the tobacco use cessation groups in Campo Bom/Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Methods: It's a cross-sectional observational study with a quantitative approach where we analyze secondary data from medical records of the group's cessation in the period from, January 2018 to December 2021. The present project was approved by the ethics research committee under the number: 5.583.858. Results: Were included 17 groups, with 119 smokers, mostly women, mean age 52,5±9,87 years. The pharmacotherapy use (OR: 15,81 IC95% 4,73-52,89), male sex (OR 1,62; IC95% 0,68-3,90), being present on more than four sessions (OR: 44,50 IC95% 13,35-148,27) and individuals of the cardiopathy group comorbidity (OR: 1,54; IC95% 0,67-3,75) had higher chances on tobacco use cessation. Conclusions: We found that 66,9% of the participants had cessation of tobacco use until the fourth session. The rate of tobacco use cessation was higher in those persons who participated in more than four meetings, had a moderate degree of nicotine dependence, smoked less than a pack by day, started smoking at a younger age, and was over 60 years old.