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

Table 2 Characteristics of low- versus high-effort groups promoting smoking cessation among Turkish Thoracic Society pulmonologists

	High effort in promoting SC	Low effort in promoting SC	P value
	N = 508 col%	N = 191 col%	P value
Noncurrent smoker	91.7	85.9	0.02
Female sex	67.3	59.7	0.05
Age (mean ± SD)	40.5 ± 9.1	36.4 ± 7.8	0.001
Pulmonology specialist	84.6	71.2	0.001
Graduated after 1996	60.0	38.2	0.001
Working in urban clinics	90.4	89.0	0.5
Working in training hospital	47.0	40.3	0.1
Academic title	30.5	16.2	0.001
Practicing in a SCOC	45.1	24.6	0.001
Educated in SC help	59.3	34.0	0.001
Member of LTCC	11.8	1.6	0.001

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

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