Smoking between Young Workers in Healthy Field, Trigger Factors and Reasons of Cessation

Abstract

Background: Smoking is an important factor correlates with morbidity and mortality all over the world and it still a real challenge according to the promotion of tobacco companies and war conditions. It correlates well with emphysema and cancers of lung and bladder in elderly adults. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was applied to workers on healthy field and medical students in age (15-45) in Aleppo University Hospital. They were divided into 2 groups (smokers and non-smokers). This study aims to define the relationship between smoking and different variants in young ages.Results: The study included 169 healthy workers (93 males, 76 females). Smokers were 88 (52.07%), 62.5% active and 37.5% passive. Most of them classified as lighter smokers, whereas13.6% were heavy smokers. 37 of smokers (42.53%) smoke shisha. 68 smokers want to stop smoking (77.27%), and 61 of them (69.31%) try that. Only 4 smokers try drugs or electronic cigarette.Promotion is the most common trigger factor for smoking 38.27% followed by war 30.86%. Genders, living with a smoker and awareness of the correlation between shisha and tuberculosis, have a statically significant between the two groups of study (p =0.009, <0.0001, 0.041) respectively. Weight and regular sporting have no significance. Conclusions: Promotion is still the first reason for smoking between young ages. Awareness by the risk of tuberculosis by shisha, living with smoker people and gender correlates well with the smoking and plays a role in this field.