Table 1.
Variables | No. | % |
Age | ||
20–29 | 33 | 14.2 |
30–39 | 56 | 24.1 |
40–49 | 55 | 23.7 |
50–59 | 73 | 31.5 |
60+ | 15 | 6.5 |
Sex | ||
Men | 105 | 42.1 |
Women | 133 | 55.9 |
Smoking behavior* | ||
Never smoker | 132 | 55.5 |
Former smoker | 25 | 10.5 |
Occasional smoker | 13 | 5.5 |
Regular smoker | 68 | 28.6 |
Smoking policy in facility | ||
None | 54 | 28.0 |
Special smoking rooms | 46 | 23.8 |
Completely forbidden to smoke | 93 | 48.2 |
Is smoking policy enforced? | ||
Yes, always | 94 | 48.5 |
Yes, sometimes | 42 | 21.7 |
No | 40 | 20.6 |
Don't know | 18 | 9.3 |
State of preparedness to assist patients to quit smoking | ||
Well prepared | 78 | 35.3 |
Somewhat prepared | 124 | 56.1 |
Unprepared | 19 | 8.6 |
*Respondents were not provided definitions for the terms regular smoker, occasional smoker, or former smoker. Each respondent defined these terms individually.