RELAPSES IN SMOKING AFTER PARTICIPATING IN A MULTICOMPONENT GROUP INTERVENTION IN PRIMARY CARE
Objective: To describe the profile of patients relapsing after quitting smoking to complete participation in an advanced group intervention in a health center. Method: - Design: Descriptive longitudinal (2009-2015). - Subjects: tobacco participants in intervention groups (N = 274). - Intervention: Program multicomponent 6 sessions, telephone follow-up (three, six, twelve months). - Variables: age, sex, age of onset, cohabiting smoking, smoking related diseases, attendance to meetings, Fageström punctuation, drugs, carbon monoxide (CO) in parts per million (ppm). Dependent variable: relapse after initial cessation at the end of the program. - Multivariate logistic regression analysis. Alfa 0.05. Results: 274 participants (age 52 + 11.5; 51.1% women). 48.7% cohabiting smokers, 44% suffer from diseases related smoking. Attend an average of 3.6 sessions. Drug treatment 14.9%. The average age of smoking initiation 18 + 6.4 years. Fageström test gives a value of 5.54 + 2.07. Number of attempts is prior to the current 1.36 + 1.2. Initial carbon monoxide is 18.42 + 8.8 ppm and end 5.5 ppm + 6.18 (p