Abstract:

Our study was conducted to determinethe role of parental smoking status on the European Medical Association Smoking or Health (EMASH) nicotine dependence scores. Records of patients aged ≥18, registered at the Smoking Cessation Outpatient Clinics, were reviewed. Data of three groups (group 1: mothers’ smoking status; group 2: fathers’ smoking status; group 3: both parents’ smoking status) were compared. A total of 902 patient records were analyzed (54.8% male, 45.2% female, age: 43.79±12.47 years). The average number of cigarettes smoked was 23.98± 9.94/day, and the age of smoking onset was 19.11±5.94 years. There were more individuals with low EMASH score in the subgroup in which mothers did not smoke than that where mothers smoked (p=0.038). The percentage of females was higher (p=0.018) and the average age was lower (p=0.005) in that where mothers smoked. There were more individuals with high EMASH score in the subgroup in which fathers smoked than that where fathers did not smoke (p=0.026). There were more individuals with low EMASH score in the subgroup in which none of the parents smoked than that where both parents smoked (p=0.013). We found a strong relationship between smoking patterns and parental smoking.     

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