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Background: There are difficulties in the treatment of smoking cessation in elderly patients. However, elderly smokers who gave up smoking had lower rates of death from heart attack, stroke, and cancer, as well as improved cognitive function. This study aimed to investigate the affecting factors and the success of smoking cessation rate in patients aged 60 and over in Turkey. Methods: Six smoking cessation outpatient clinics from four provinces were included in the study. The records of 1,065 patients who applied to a smoking cessation outpatient clinic between 2016 and 2019 and who were 60 yr of age or older were scanned. Overall, 917 cases that could be reached after treatment were included in the study. Smoking cessation rates at the first month, 3rd month, 6th month, 9th month and 12th month were given. Results: Of the 917 cases, 65.1% were male and 34.9% were female. Smoking cessation rates were 45.6% on the first month, 39% on the third month, 35.1% on the sixth month, 31.2% on the ninth month, and 30.3% at the twelfth month. Smoking cessation success was higher in men than in women. Conclusion: Since the success of smoking cessation in the elderly was similar to that of adults. Since smoking is an independent risk factor for death in the elderly, there should be greater willingness to provide elderly patients with smoking cessation treatment to reduce physical function loss and promote healthier aging.
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Tobacco addiction, which causes the death of more than 8.5 million people in the world every year, is a preventable global public health problem. There are 1.1 billion adult smokers worldwide and 60% of them desire or intend to quit but unfortunately, the tobacco industry continues to profit at the expense of people's lives by marketing electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products as a smoking cessation method and they continue to poison young people with new threat tobacco products, promising a "smoke-free future" Turkish Thoracic Society is actively involved in the implementation of the National Tobacco Control Program to protect public health and has warned and raised awareness of new threats to the youth, such as electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products. The purpose of this report is to provide information about electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products and to present TTJ's position on the subject.
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate Nazilli Tuberculosis Dispensary activities executed between 1st June, 1996- 31st May, 2000 and to compare differences among 12-month-periods. DESIGN: Retrospective analyses of data. SETTINGS: People living in the villages under responsibility of Nazilli Tuberculosis Dispensary. POPULATION: People examined in out-patient clinic as symptomatic cases, for health report or during contact examination, number of mycobacteriological and radiological examinations, and tuberculosis cases detected in each year. MAIN RESULTS: Average number of newly diagnosed tuberculosis patient in every 12-month-period was 105. The average rate for new tuberculosis cases finding was 52.5%. Pulmonary tuberculosis was in 74.8% of all tuberculosis cases. The range of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases in all tuberculosis cases differed from 49% to 71% and a decrease in the rate of cases with no sputum smear from 18% to 3% were observed. The average of bacteriological conversion rate at the end of second therapy month was 70.5%. The average of cure rate in new smear positive patients was 82%. According to drug susceptibility test results, 13 of new smear positive cases and 5 of old cases were multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. CONCLUSION: Although the treatment success of either new smear positive or old smear positive tuberculosis cases were high, it is necessary to plan strategies for increasing the new case finding rate to 70%, the rate suggested by World Health Organization. The data obtained by this study showed that hopeful results may be achieved by stable staff and team-work in tuberculosis dispensary.
