The Effect of Giving Up Smoking of The Doctors and Nurses of The Smoking Ban in Closed Places

Purpose: The study was carried out with the aim of determining the effect of giving up smoking of the doctors and nurses of the ban of smoking in closed places.

Method: The context of the study consisted of the nurses and doctors who had smoked for a period of their lives and working in clinic wits between the dates 11.15.2008 and 01.15.2009 of the Yakutiye and Aziziye Research hospitals of Atatürk University Süleyman Demirel Medical Centre. The data were collected by means of question form. In the statistical analysis of the data, means, percentages, Chi-square and Fisher’s Chi-square tests were used.

Results: It was found out that 16.2% of the doctors who gave up cigarette and that 33.3% of the nurses who gave up smoking, after the ban of cigarette, decided to give up smoking. After the ban, it was found out that 36.1% of the doctors who continue to smoke and 47.8% of the nurses who continue to smoke reduced. The number of cigarette they smoked but differences between groups were not found to be statistically significant. It was detected that 44.4% of the doctors and 33.3% of the nurses thought to give up smoking but differences between groups were not found to be statistically significant.

Conclusion: In the study, although the doctors ant the nurses stated that they weren’t effected from being smoked in closed places, it was concluded that most of them reduced the number of the cigarette after the ban, and they should attempt for giving up smoking and even that some of them gave up smoking.