The relation of nicotine addiction levels and depression in the students studying at Dicle University faculty of Medicine, educational sciences and theology

Objectives: The use of cigarettes and other tobacco products is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths worldwide. Tobacco use is a factor that increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes and premature death. Students studying at the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Theology will be able to take positions in positions that may be role models in society in the future. We aimed to investigate the nicotine addiction status of the faculty students in question and their relationship with depression and to contribute to the development of suggestions and measures to prevent smoking and tobacco use with the results obtained from this study. Materials and Methods: Our research is planned as a cross-sectional study. The universe of our study will be the students of the medical faculty, theology faculty and the faculty of education. 420 people, 262 women and 158 men, participated in our study. In our study, sociodemographic data form consisting of 10 questions, Beck depression and phagestrrom nicotine addiction test were applied to the participants. Results: It was determined that 37.6% of the participants were male, 62.4% were female, 25.7% of the participants were studying at the medical faculty, 46.7% at the faculty of theology, and 27.6% at the faculty of education. When the beck depression score average was compared according to the faculty they read, a statistically significant difference was observed (p <0.05). But; There is no statistically significant difference between FNBT scores among the faculties (p> 0.05). No statistically significant difference was found between smoker and non-smoker students in terms of depression (p> 0.05). Participants; There is a statistically significant difference between the sexes in each faculty in terms of smoking status compared to genders in terms of smoking status (p <0.05). Conclusion: Cigarette consumption in the family or in the immediate environment should be considered as a passive exposure and a factor that encourages smoking, and serious studies should be done to raise social awareness, especially for family members to smoke with children and young people. Given that the period of starting to smoke coincides mostly with high school period, studies and trainings aimed at preventing cigarette addiction should be concentrated in primary and secondary education periods. Keywords: Cigarette, Medical School, Faculty of Theology, Education Faculty, Depression,