Avaliação da atenção concentrada e memória em tabagistas com baixa carga tabágica

• Autor(a) principal: Manzano, Roberta Munhoz
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Ambrozin, Alexandre Ricardo Pepe [UNESP], Ruiz, Nara Silveira, Carletti, Carla de Oliveira, Ramirez, Ariane Pereira, Spigolon, Neilson Spigolon Giedri Palmieri, Oliveira, Luiz Carlos, Belancieri, Maria de Fátima
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://submission-mtprehabjournal.com/revista/article/view/101/62; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/114990

Introduction: Smoking is considered by World Health Organisation (WHO) a disease, since nicotine is addictive and cause physical, emotional and behavioral disorders in people who smoke. The objective of this study was to evaluate the concentrated attention and memory in smokers and nonsmokers, and the influence of one cigarette in this variables. Material and Methods: We selected two groups of subjects between 18 and 25 years, with no history of acute or chronic respiratory disease. Group 1 (G1) consist of 40 nonsmoking individuals and group 2 (G2) 40 smokers (who smoked less than 20 cigarettes per day, for up to 10 years). The subjects were tested for concentrated attention and memory test (AC Test), nonsmokers performed the test once, smokers performed the test twice, before smoking and after five minutes after smoking one cigarette. Smokers stayed without cigarret for one our before the first test. Results: Comparing the tests nonsmokers versus smokers first test, there was no significant difference (p> 0.05), however, the analysis of the two trials of smokers, showed improvement in concentrated attention and memory after smoke (p <0.0001). Conclusions: There was no difference in Concentrated Attention and Memory among nonsmokers and smokers in abstinence, however smokers showed significant improvement in AC Test after smoking.