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. 2021 Oct 20:15:11795484211047041.
doi: 10.1177/11795484211047041. eCollection 2021.

Self-Reported Smoking Status 10-Months After a Single Session Intervention Including an Education Conference About Smoking Harms and Announcement of Spirometric Lung-Age

Khansa Derbel  1 , Chiraz Maatoug  2 , Amira Mchita  2 , Khaoula Hadj Mabrouk  2 , Helmi Ben Saad  1   2   3   4
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Self-Reported Smoking Status 10-Months After a Single Session Intervention Including an Education Conference About Smoking Harms and Announcement of Spirometric Lung-Age

Khansa Derbel et al. Clin Med Insights Circ Respir Pulm Med. .

Abstract

Background: Studies investigating the effects of announcing spirometric lung-age (SLA) on the smokers' self-reported smoking status reported conflicting results.

Main objective: To evaluate the effects of a single session intervention including an education conference about smoking harms and announcement of SLA on the participants' self-reported smoking status.

Methodology: An interventional study was conducted in a cable factory. The intervention included four steps: PowerPoint presentation about raising smoking hazards awareness; general questionnaire; measurement of the anthropometric and spirometric data, and announcement of SLA; and evaluation of the smokers' self-reported smoking status 10 months later (quitted smoking, decreased consumption; stable consumption, increased consumption).

Results: Thirty-six smokers completed the four steps. Ten months after the intervention, 11.1% of smokers quitted smoking, 52.7% decreased their consumption by 7 ± 4 cigarettes/day, 30.5% kept a stable consumption, and 5.5% increased their consumption by 9 ± 6 cigarettes/day.

Conclusion: Providing an education conference combined with announcing SLA motivated 64% of smokers to quit smoking or to reduce their cigarette consumption.

Keywords: Nicotine Dependence; Occupational Medicine; Respiratory Function; Smoking Cessation; Tobacco Smoking.

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Figure 1.
Study protocol. FEV1: forced expiratory volume in one second. FEV6: forced expiratory volume in six seconds. SLA: spirometric lung-age.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Study flow chart. FTCD: Fagerström test for cigarette dependence. SLA: spirometric lung-age.
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