Determination of the Patient Profile Most Likely to Quit Smoking

Objectives: Smoking cessation programs are widely used in dental clinics to reduce the tobacco use of smokers and to prevent uptake in non-smokers. Dentists play an important role when it comes to informing and motivating patients but it is also necessary to recommend them to treat the addiction. Every patient has a different degree of addiction and the approach to quit smoking is different depending on it. For this reason, it is important to know the patient profile most and less susceptible to quit smoking and apply the best protocol to each one.
The aim of this study was to determine which patients were more susceptible to smoking cessation depending on their sex, level of stress and age at the International University of Catlunya.
Methods: The protocol of smoking cessation with the inclusion of a mobile application was applied to the patients. Data was collected from 67 smoking patients distributing surveys including filiation data, level of stress, number of cigarettes smoked, other information about the tobacco smoked and the Richmond and Fagerström tests.
Results: A follow-up of 3 months was completed by 42 patients who answered the survey in 6 different times. The number of cigarettes, Richmond test values and Fagerström test values variation in time was evaluated for both genders and the different levels of stress. The data for the age could not be evaluated
because of the homogeneity of the sample. The three variables analysed for sex showed statistically significant differences. For the levels of stress only the levels of 3 and 4 showed statistically significant differences in the three different variables.
Conclusions: From the data obtained in the study and the analysis of the results, women with levels of stress of 3 and 4 (in a scale from 0-6) were the profile of patients more susceptible to quit smoking.