Tabagismo: tratamento medicamentoso, aderência e custo para a saúde

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco use is the world's second leading cause of death due to various types of cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke, and triggers and worsens conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. Assuming characteristics of a smoking pandemic is a public health problem, as it is no longer an individual problem when millions of people are killed because of tobacco dependence. The objective of the study was to show information pertinent to the theme, pointing out the main aspects related to drug treatment, adherence and cost to health. An integrative literature review was carried out, with a broad methodological approach regarding revisions, allowing the inclusion of experimental and non-experimental studies for a complete understanding of the phenomenon analyzed. We can say that the implementation process of development of the alert against the use of tobacco control includes basic measures to confront the tobacco epidemic, ranging from the awareness of society to the offer of treatment by the SUS. Tobacco is a worldwide problem in public health, and the spending that revolves around it goes beyond what one imagines, and although patients have all the necessary support for cessation of addiction, the number of people following the treatment is not so great. great. Measures to eradicate the number of smokers must be effective and constant, in order to put the Measures to eradicate the number of smokers must be effective and constant, in order to put the