Prevalence of tabaccoism in patients with obstructive chronic pulmonary disease, 2017- 2018

Foundation: tobbacoism is considered an epidemic of universally spread and a burden for the individual, the family and the society. Objective: to determine the prevalence of tobbacoism in patients with obstructive chronic pulmonary disease. Methods: A cross descriptive study was done at the University General Hospital Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima. Cienfuegos, at the internal medicine wards from September 2017 to 2018. All the patients who voluntarily wished to participate, the simple was constituted with 80 patients. The variables studied were age, sex, scholarship, occupation, precedence, tobaccoism, number of cigarettes smoked daily, years smoking, obstructive chronic pulmonary disease, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, renal chronic failure, ischemic cardiopathies, stroke and cancer. It was used the questionnaire of the CARMEN (Group of Actions to reduce non-transmissible diseases) project instrument for collecting information. The instrument was applied individually and the statistical analysis was done by the SSPS package. Results: male smokers prevailed (79,5 %), with more than senior high school scholarship (68,4 %), of rural orygen (76,5 %). They represent the highest percentage of patients who have been smoking for more than 40 years (51,8 %) and consume up to a box of cigarettes a day (68,5 %). Among the chronic diseases which co-existed hypertension prevaled. Conclusion: the prevalence of tobaccoism in patients with obstructive pulmonary disease is high in spite of the negative consequences for health.