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Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use and Smoking Cessation Practices among Physicians in Poland

Physicians play a key role in combating tobacco use. This study aims to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and behaviors toward smoking cessation and vaping cessation interventions among physicians in Poland; to identify factors shaping physicians’ behaviors toward smoking and vaping cessation interv...

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Autores principales: Jankowski, Mateusz, Kaleta, Dorota, Zgliczyński, Wojciech Stefan, Grudziąż-Sękowska, Justyna, Wrześniewska-Wal, Iwona, Gujski, Mariusz, Wierzba, Waldemar, Pinkas, Jarosław
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6801531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31557913
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193595
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author Jankowski, Mateusz
Kaleta, Dorota
Zgliczyński, Wojciech Stefan
Grudziąż-Sękowska, Justyna
Wrześniewska-Wal, Iwona
Gujski, Mariusz
Wierzba, Waldemar
Pinkas, Jarosław
author_facet Jankowski, Mateusz
Kaleta, Dorota
Zgliczyński, Wojciech Stefan
Grudziąż-Sękowska, Justyna
Wrześniewska-Wal, Iwona
Gujski, Mariusz
Wierzba, Waldemar
Pinkas, Jarosław
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description Physicians play a key role in combating tobacco use. This study aims to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and behaviors toward smoking cessation and vaping cessation interventions among physicians in Poland; to identify factors shaping physicians’ behaviors toward smoking and vaping cessation interventions; and to assess differences in the tobacco cessation interventions recommended for cigarette smokers and users of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). A questionnaire-based survey was conducted in 2018 among physicians attending mandatory public health training courses delivered at the School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland. The questionnaire included 25 questions related to tobacco product use and smoking cessation interventions. Data were obtained from 423 physicians (64.3% female; mean age 32.0 ± 5.8 years) with response rate of 84.6%. Current cigarette smoking was declared by 7.8% of participants; 1.9% of participants were e-cigarette users and 1.9% used heated tobacco. Smoking cessation interventions were offered more often to patients who smoked cigarettes than those who used e-cigarettes (p < 0.001). Physicians’ behaviors toward smoking cessation and vaping cessation interventions were associated with (p < 0.05) physicians’ smoking status and self-declared knowledge about smoking cessation methods. Among physicians in Poland, discussion of smoking cessation was not common behavior and limited mainly to identification of smoking status.
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spelling pubmed-68015312019-10-31 Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use and Smoking Cessation Practices among Physicians in Poland Jankowski, Mateusz Kaleta, Dorota Zgliczyński, Wojciech Stefan Grudziąż-Sękowska, Justyna Wrześniewska-Wal, Iwona Gujski, Mariusz Wierzba, Waldemar Pinkas, Jarosław Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Physicians play a key role in combating tobacco use. This study aims to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and behaviors toward smoking cessation and vaping cessation interventions among physicians in Poland; to identify factors shaping physicians’ behaviors toward smoking and vaping cessation interventions; and to assess differences in the tobacco cessation interventions recommended for cigarette smokers and users of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). A questionnaire-based survey was conducted in 2018 among physicians attending mandatory public health training courses delivered at the School of Public Health, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland. The questionnaire included 25 questions related to tobacco product use and smoking cessation interventions. Data were obtained from 423 physicians (64.3% female; mean age 32.0 ± 5.8 years) with response rate of 84.6%. Current cigarette smoking was declared by 7.8% of participants; 1.9% of participants were e-cigarette users and 1.9% used heated tobacco. Smoking cessation interventions were offered more often to patients who smoked cigarettes than those who used e-cigarettes (p < 0.001). Physicians’ behaviors toward smoking cessation and vaping cessation interventions were associated with (p < 0.05) physicians’ smoking status and self-declared knowledge about smoking cessation methods. Among physicians in Poland, discussion of smoking cessation was not common behavior and limited mainly to identification of smoking status. MDPI 2019-09-25 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6801531/ /pubmed/31557913 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193595 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Gujski, Mariusz
Wierzba, Waldemar
Pinkas, Jarosław
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