Table 3.

Reasons considered by dentists as barriers for conducting tobacco cessation campaigns in their clinics (n=181/466) in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, 2016

Reason	Number (%)
I lack time	71 (39.2)
I am afraid the patients will not be happy to receive this service	51(28.3)
I lack education on the topic	23 (12.8)
I believe dentists don’t have a role in tobacco cessation	14 (7.7)
I am not convinced of the effectiveness of such campaigns	11 (6.1)
I am a smoker and cannot conduct such campaigns	5 (2.8)
I am a pediatric dentist	6 (3.3)
Total	181 (100%)