92% of smokers Bahraini secondary school certificate holders

Manama (Ina) - Bahraini study showed that the average age of attendees quit smoking in the country is 37 - year - old clinic and that Bahrainis were reached (80 percent), the majority (92 percent) of thesecondary school certificate holders or less as was the percentage of students , including ( 18 percent.) 
prepared the study by a joint team from the Arabian Gulf University and the Ministry of Health in Bahrain on (the effectiveness of tobacco cessation clinics in improving the rate of quitting smoking in theKingdom of Bahrain). 
the study results showed that (72.2 percent) from the patrons to quit Clinics smoking of cigarette smokers only, as he was (2.6 percent) of them from the water pipe smokers, and (19.1 percent) of them smoke cigarettes and shisha together. 
she said Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Science for scientific research and Graduate Studies of the Arabian Gulf University Prof. Dr. Randa Hamadeh and Principal investigator in this study that the average years since goers clinics since they started smoking was 20 years of cigarettes compared to 8 years for hookah. 
She noted that the study showed that more than three quarters of cigarette smokers are suffering from nicotine dependence , where smoked a third of them first cigarette after five minutes of waking up, with smoked more than three quarters of them in the first hour of waking up. 
on the source , who know from which smokers to quit smoking clinics, the study said that friends haveformed the most important source of information (36 percent), compared to (7 percent ) for physicians, and (18 percent) through posters in health centers. 
 and the reasons that prompted goers quit smoking clinics to visit the clinic, explained that health reasons top the list of reasons that prompted them to quit until I reached the ratio to (75 percent). 
the total previous attempts rate goers clinics to quit five times, has been successful (57 percent) of them to quit all tobacco types, has been shown to quitting rate was higher among water pipe smokers (64 percent) compared with cigarettes (55 percent). 
Dr Randa Hamadeh said the study recommended adding ways to quit smoking for academic programs and support for students and staff to quit smoking, and conduct further research on the behavior ofsmoking and combat use. 
The study also recommended increasing the number of clinics to quit smoking, and to increase the days and hours of work of these clinics, and recommended as well as the involvement of the private sector in national efforts to help smokers quit, and increasing awareness activities in the educational institutions and the media, and the continuity of monitoring smoking cessation clinics and effectiveness.