Habits of smoking and pulmonary function in current smokers.
- Author:
Chang Sup KIM
1
;
Doo Young CHOI
;
Sung Sun WOO
;
Youn Suck KOH
Author Information
1. Department of Family Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
different habits of cigarette smoking;
pulmonary function;
current smoker
- MeSH:
Drinking;
Education;
Health Promotion;
Respiratory Function Tests;
Seoul;
Smoke*;
Smoking Cessation;
Smoking*;
Tertiary Care Centers;
Tobacco Products;
Ulsan
- From:Journal of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine
1999;20(2):158-166
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: It is well known that there is an adverse effect of longterm cigarette smoking on pulmonary function. But there are few reports about the effect of different habits of cigarette smoking on pulmonary function. Some smokers think that different habits of cigarette smoking are more safe than athers and this can be, an obstacle to the education of smoking cessation. Therefore, we have obtained applicable basic information for education of smoking cessation by analysing the effects of different habits of cigarette smoking on pulmonary function. METHODS: We surveyed current smokers on different habits of smoking who had performed puhnonary function test at the pulmonary function laboratory of one tertiary hospital in Seoul and pulmonary function test was done as a part of comprehensive health check-up at health promotion center of one secondary hospital at Ulsan from May 1998 to July 1998. We analysed the effects of different habits of cigarette smoking on pulmonary function in 160 subjects who has no specific respiratory disease. RESULTS: The factors were age, height, weight and amount of total smoking that had effect on pulmonary function. There were six different habits of smoking that we could analyse time of first smoking after sleep, average time of one cigarette smoked, current amount of smoking, length of one cigarette smoked, effort to quit smoking, smoking with drinking and all these six habits of sking had no relationship with the results of the pulmonary function test. CONCLUSIONS: The damage in pulmonary function was not protected by different habits of smoking that were previously known to be more safe or healthy. Therefore, we concluded that smoking cessation is the only way to prevent the damage in pulmonary function from cigarette smoking.
