title: [Effects of spirometric screening in the community on smoking cessation].
abstract: In the years 1998-2000 in the Centre of COPD and Respiratory Failure in Bydgoszcz a group of tobacco smokers at risk of COPD (over 40 years of age, with smoking history of more than 10 packyears) were studied. Every patient filled-in a simple questionnaire on clinical signs of COPD and tobacco habit, had a spirometry performed according to ATS standards and received a short antitobacco counseling together with a booklet on how to quit smoking. Out of 1072 patients studied in 1998, airway obstruction was found in 200. Eighty seven of these were current smokers (studied group-S). Another 90 current smokers with normal spirometry served as a control group-C. Both groups of smokers were invited in 1999 and 2000 to perform spirometry. Changes in smoking habit were recorded at each yearly visit. After one year 13 patients (15%) from the S group and 4 (4.5%) from the C group permanently stopped smoking. In 2000 24 patients (28%) in S group and 13 (14.7%) in C group permanently quit smoking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Spirometric screening in smokers at risk of COPD together with a minimal antismoking intervention seems to be a promising method of smoking cessation.
authors.affiliation: Centrum POChP i Niewydolności Oddychania Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Gruźlicy i Chorób Płuc w Bydgoszczy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Czajkowska-Malinowska
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nowiński
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Górecka
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zieliński
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D013147:Spirometry / Q000295:instrumentation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Wpływ wczesnego środowiskowego wykrywania POCHP na ograniczenie nałogu palenia tytoniu.