Resumen de Actitud del personal de farmacia de Aragón en la deshabituación tabáquica
J. F. Colom Beltrán, Alfonso Pérez Trullén, Emilio Ángel Rubio Calvo, María Lourdes Clemente Jiménez, Inés Herrero Labarga
Objective: To know the contribution by pharmacy professionals to the struggle against tobacco consumption, through the advice for quitting tobacco adiction. Methods: A sample of 401 employees was studied, selected by a two-stage sampling process, presenting to them an anonymous and self-administered survey that allowed to know the characteristics of the advice for quitting tobaccoism. Results: 46.4% of the staff always offered this advice (56.93% of the male and 52.63% of the licensed pharmacists), while 48.9% of them did it in regards to a related pathology, and 4.7% did never offer it. In this task, 34.29% spent less than 3 minutes, 37.96% between 3 and 5 minutes, and 27.75% more than 5 minutes. The advice could be: minimal intervention (89.53%), substitutive therapy with nicotine (62.57%, with a larger percentage of pharmacists), and other types in a lower percentage. 66.75% of them, asked again about the subject. Conclusions: The community pharmacy staff offers advice for tobacco dehabituation, through personal counseling and pharmacological substitutive therapy with nicotine (to a lower extent the auxiliary staff)
