Background: There are approximately 17 million smokers in Turkey. These smokers impacted the social and behavioural aspects of the community especially the younger age group which constitutes the majority of the Turkish population. Physicians’ attitudes towards smoking transcend into their patients. Methods: Attitudes and behaviours of physicians in Trakya University Hospital towards smoking we...

OBJECTIVE to identify the degree of nicotine dependence among patients with schizophrenia and other mental disorders hospitalized in a general hospital, correlating these indices with clinical indicators and the meaning for the user. METHOD the study was performed in the psychiatric unit of a general hospital, interviewing 270 patients with mental disorders using a questionnaire and the appli...

The aim of this study was to show the interactions between nicotine dependency, exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) and smoking status including environmental passive tobacco smoke exposure in a sample of Turkish adolescents. This study was a cross-sectional research conducted among high school students of Erzurum province (n=536). The level of exhaled CO of all participants who accepted to participat...

OBJECTIVE In an ongoing molecular genetic study of temperament, participants were genotyped to examine the association of smoking with two polymorphisms of the serotonin transporter gene (SERT): the promoter region, 5-HTTLPR, and an intronic variable-number-of-tandem-repeats region (VNTR). METHOD Full information was available for 330 families, and 244 "ever smokers" were identified (54 past ...

Background: Tobacco and alcohol consumption are considered as major public health problems in India. Coastal areas have a considerable number of people engaged fishing. The strenuous nature the job, long irregular working hours may lead to an increased rate tobacco consumption. Therefore, it becomes essential assess prevalence use factors associated with among fish factory workers.Methods: A cr...

BACKGROUND Smoking prevalence is high among psychiatric patients. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of smoking, related factors and nicotine dependence in patients suffering from psychiatric disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS This analytical descriptive study was performed on patients who had been hospitalized for at least 2 days in Razi Hospital during 2010. Data were collected via a...

BACKGROUND Cigarettes and coffee are widely used psychoactive substances among alcoholics. Due to the devastating public health impact of alcohol use disorders, it is important to determine if using cigarettes or coffee may influence alcoholism. Previous studies indicate that cigarette smoking is associated with progression of alcohol dependence, but the effects of coffee drinking have yet to b...

Turkey protects its entire population of 75 million people with all the MPOWER measures at the highest level. The aim of this study is to make a comparison of smoking and addiction data obtained from Sakarya University students in 2005-6 and 2012-13. A total of 4,200 (2,500 and 1,700 for each academic year) students at Sakarya University in Sakarya, Turkey, were randomly selected for sampling p...

PURPOSE We used a pulse carbon monoxide (CO)-oximeter to measure the levels of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) in smokers and non-smokers. Our goal was to determine if this device could not only define smoking status, but also to increase accuracy of self-reported data at various surveys on smoking. METHODS Thirty-four healthy volunteers participated in this study. Twenty-two of them were current da...

Background: Psychiatric disorders are among the leading contributors to disability in India and worldwide. The pattern, prevalence, distribution of psychiatric country its regions need be assessed facilitate early diagnosis treatment. No study on epidemiology has been conducted Chhattisgarh state. This paper, as part National Mental Health Survey (NMHS), discusses prevalence pattern Methods: A ...