Analysis of the Role of Physicians in the Cessation of Cigarette Smoking Based on Medical Specialization

Seyhan Dülger
Canan Doğan
Özlem Şengören Dikiş
Eylem Yıldırım
Utku Tapan
İpek Özmen
Birsen Şahin Satılmış
Yavuz Selim İntepe
Birsen Ocaklı
Cevriye Yüksel Kaçan
Ersin Budak
Tekin Yıldız

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Publication date

April 2018

DOI

10.6061/clinics/2018/e347

Publisher

Faculdade de Medicina / USP

ISSN

1807-5932

Journal

issn:1980-5322

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Physicians do not adequately use their unique professional privilege to prevent patients from smoking. The aim of this study was to investigate the type and extent of advice given to patients by physicians of different medical specialties regarding smoking cessation. METHODS: In total, 317 volunteer physicians were included in this study. The participants rated their attitudes toward the smoking habits of their patients by completing a questionnaire. The approaches used to address the smoking habits of patients significantly differed among physicians working at polyclinics, clinics and emergency service departments (p<0.001). Physicians working at clinics exhibited the highest frequency of inquiring about the smoking habits of t...