Evaluation of the smoking cessation at the patients of Saint-Denis (Reunion island), over the year 2014

• Published in: Revue de pneumologie clinique 2018-09, Vol.74 (4), p.215-220
• Main Authors: Simon, C, Bruneau, L, Chirpaz, E, Mété, D
• Format: Article
• Language: fre
• Subjects: Adult; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Retrospective Studies; Reunion - epidemiology; Smoking - epidemiology; Smoking - therapy; Smoking Cessation - methods; Smoking Cessation - statistics & numerical data; Smoking Cessation Agents - therapeutic use; Urban Population - statistics & numerical data; Urbanization
• ISSN: 0761-8417
• DOI: 10.1016/j.pneumo.2018.01.003

The fight against smoking is a major challenge for public health in Reunion Island. This French overseas department knows considerable social inequalities and so there is a possibility of free access to nicotine substitution among disadvantaged patients. The objective was to describe the social characteristics, the level of addiction to smoking and the actual level of smoking cessation at 18 months of tobacco-smoking patients from Reunion who consulted in 2014. It was an observational, retrospective, monocentric study carried out in the addictology service in the teaching hospital in Saint-Denis, Reunion Island. Inclusion of patients over the year 2014 who were mono-dependent on tobacco and who were consulting for the first time in order to give up smoking. 122 patients were included, 51 % of women, of an average age of 47.5 years. The rate of smoking cessation at a year and a half was 23 %. There was no significant difference concerning smoking cessation according to the patient's level of addiction, the educational level, the profession or the level of confidence when stopping. The proportion of patients who had given up at a year and a half in our study was comparable to the data found in international literature. The impact of free access to nicotine substitution on smoking cessation could not be estimated.