Interfering factors to the abandonment of smoking cigarettes for the participants of the National Program for Tobacco Control

Abstract

Introduction: Smoking is considered a chronic and epidemic disease because the nicotine as well as with other drugs causes, physical, psychological and behavioral addiction. Objective: To verify the interfering factors to the abandonment of smoking cigarettes participants of the National Program for Tobacco Control, assisted by Day-Hospital Professor Esterina Corsini of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, a central-west region of Brazil.Results: Of the 370 smokers, 49.5% were male, and 50.5% were female, with a mean age of 47.47±11.52 years old. As the education, 44.8% had at least nine years of study and 54.9% with up to eight