查看文章

Since smoking is a considerable public health problem, in this study community pharmacists’ attitude, habits and actual activities were investigated. In order to collect data, a questionnaire was designed and conducted among 83 pharmacists in the 1st Region of Ankara Chamber of Pharmacists. It was found that 38.6% of the pharmacists are active smokers and 57.8% think that pharmacists should not smoke in front of patients. 68.7% of the pharmacists do not smoke at their pharmacy, 72.3% think that pharmacists should ask smoking status of their patients who have a disease which can be affected by smoking, 73.5% of the pharmacists advice the patients who wants to quit smoking and seek their advice to be determined about quit smoking, and 71.1% of them would like to learn more about smoking cessation methods. It can be concluded that initiatives to increase pharmacists’ tobacco-related knowledge as well as skills and to enhance their sense of responsibility of health promotion may promote pharmacists providing concultancy services with accuracy and effectiveness.