Association between pulmonologists’ tobacco use and their effort in promoting smoking cessation in Turkey: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Characteristics of current and noncurrent smokers among Turkish Thoracic Society pulmonologists

	Current smokers	Noncurrent smokers	P value
	N = 69 col%	N = 630 col%	P value
Female sex	44.9	67.5	0.001
Age (mean ± SD)	38.7 ± 7.8	39.5 ± 9.1	0.4
Pulmonology specialist	84.1	80.6	0.4
Graduated after 1996	46.4	54.9	0.1
Working in urban clinics	91.3	89.8	0.7
Working in training hospital	44.6	50.7	0.3
Academic title	18.8	27.5	0.1
Practicing in a SCOC	20.3	41.6	0.001^a
Educated in SC help	43.5	53.3	0.1
LTCC member	7.2	9.2	0.7

SC smoking cessation, SCOC smoking cessation outpatient clinic, SD standard deviation, LTCC Local Tobacco Control Committee
^aContinuity correction

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