The reasons affecting smoking and its frequency among the pharmacists in Diyarbakir province

Smoking is a desease accepted as a substance addiction and is one of the reason of mortality and morbidity worlwide. Pharmacists are healthcare staff who shoud be role model in a society. The objective of this study is to determine the reasons affecting smoking and its frequency among the pharmacists in Diyarbakır province. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 304 out of 321 pharmacists without sampling in the border of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality and its other big counties. The data were collected as a result of the survey which was prepared literature origined and percent, average, X2 (chi-square), Fisher's Exact test were used for evaluation of the data. The pharmacists' average of age is 38.21±12.64 years, yield average is 6280.20±2922.02 TL, 85.5% of them work as freelancer pharmacists. 70% of the pharmacists are male. The frequency of smoking between pharmacists is 35.9%. The average packet/year of the active smokers is 15.73±18.36 years, the average addiction point is 3.45±2.88 according to Fageström Nicotine Addiction Test. 60.6 % of the pharmacists are little/far less addicted. 19.3% of the smoker are about to give up smoking. The smoking frequency of male is (41.8%), more than that of female (22.0%). The reasons raising why pharmacists smoke are that they dont like their job the lack of hobbies and cultural activities and regular feeding habits,not to realize health condition and the presence of large amount of smokers. The smokers are more likely to have a health problem (p<0.05). According to the study there is no link between smoking and pharmacists' age group, marital status, income state, educational background, family type, the number of children, working hours, personality (p>0.05). As a result; in Diyarbakır the smoking frequency of pharmacists is high but their addiction level is low. It was aimed that the reasons augmenting the ratio of smoking and results were analysed together and that intervention to decrease the pharmacists' smoking ratio. Key words: Pharmacist, Cigarette, The frequency of smoking, Addiction.