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SOTOLONGO LOPEZ, Juan Carlos; PEREZ CRUZ, Hayvin; SAMPER NOA, Juan Antonio  y  PEREZ CRUZ, Nuvia. Smoking behavior in health staff of the "Dr. Carlos J. Finlay"Central Military Hospital. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2011, vol.40, n.2, pp.147-156. ISSN 0138-6557.

Introduction: there are evidences that the function of health professionals is very important at the moment of social change regarding the smoking and that is own smoke habit has a relevant influence on it. Objective: to determine the smoking behavior in the health staff of a hospitalization area. Methods: a cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in the "Dr. Carlos J. Finlay" Central Military Hospital over the first semester of 2010 including 9 smokers including physicians, nurses and service staff. In all the cases a survey was distributed as well as the Fagerström test. Results: there was predominance of female sex (57.8 %) The Fagerström questionnaire showed a low dependence rate (31.1 %). Severity of addiction demonstrated that the 75.5 % was the social group considered as slight or intermittent. The 47.8 % was in training phase for quite the smoking. The 76 % declared had not anti-smoking treatment. Deterioration of personal economy was the more mentioned smoking consequence in all the groups (80 %); whereas among the smoking-provoked diseases, the stomatologic diseases (25.5 %) and the peripheral vascular ones (24.4 %) were fundamental. Conclusions: it is take into account the smoking behavior in health staff of hospitalization area is observed mainly in the service staff, young, female sex, white skin, married, with a low dependence of nicotine, without a prior anti-smoking treatment with consequences for stomatologic and peripheral vascular health and mainly the deterioration of the personal economy.

Palabras clave : smoking; addiction; anti-smoking; Fagerström.

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