SS 13.30-15.00 Special sessions

BEHAVIOURISTIC RISK FACTORS OF SMOKING AND STRATEGY OF CESSATION

Difficulties in losing the habit of smoking (S), and also ineffectiveness in removal of this habit, which is shown in the fact, that mortality in the subpopulation of smokers, who quitted S doesn't lower, makes people look for new ways of struggle with S. The aim of our research was finding out possibilities of overcoming S not in "direct way, but removing the premises for S, expressed in the form of some "risk factors" (RF) of this habit. In the lst part of the research, conducted on 1846 people in the age of 12-85 years, psycho-behaviouristic and morfofunctional RF were revealed. They were: instability of mood, light excitability, physical untrainedness, inclination to depressive conditions, psycho emotional type "A", hypertonical type of reaction of arterial blood pressure with relatively low mass-height index, raised level of cholesterol and lipoproteins of high density in blood, variativity in the exponents of the test of motor-cardiac correlation. Second part of the research, conducted on 210 people in the age of 40-49 years was aimed at comparison of 2 methods of freeing from tobacco dependence: in the lst method detailed psychological orientation on the refusal of S was used (group A - explanation of the harm of S and the need of quitting of S with the date set for quitting); in the 2nd - tested person was just oriented on the task of S cessation (moment of quitting was chosen by the person himself), also RF were influenced (group B). Researches after 1 and 2 years showed greater effectiveness of the 2 nd method: relative number of people, who quit smoking and then started again per 100% was authentically lower than in the group A. The process of refusal of S itself in the group B was subjectively easier, than in the group A.

Smoke Free Europe Conference Abstracts - 19 SEP 1996

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