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Smoking cessation in the Greek Air Force: associations with shift work and flight status
  1. Alexandros Kalkanis1,
  2. V Diamantidou2,
  3. D Papadopoulos1,
  4. M Eleftheriou3,
  5. D Testelmans1 and
  6. B Buyse1
  1. 1 Department of Respiratory Diseases, KU Leuven University Hospitals Leuven Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium
  2. 2 Intensive Care Unit, 251 Air Force General Hospital, Athens, Attica, Greece
  3. 3 Department of Mathematics, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Western Greece, Greece
  1. Correspondence to Dr Alexandros Kalkanis, Department of Respiratory Diseases, KU Leuven University Hospitals Leuven Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium; alexandros.kalkanis{at}uzleuven.be

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjmilitary-2022-002144

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    Tobacco use is highly prevalent among military personnel.1 Continued tobacco use and cessation failure depends on work-related aspects of the service, and thus requires a tailored approach.2 We aimed to investigate smoking habits and smoking cessation trials in a cohort of Greek Air Force service members, who were active or ex-smokers and working in rotating shifts.

    Officers serving in the Greek Air Force in Attica region (total population 3946) were recruited during their yearly physical evaluation in the 251 Air Force General Hospital in Athens between June and December 2018 and filled out an anonymous questionnaire regarding their work schedule, their smoking habits and their smoking cessation attempts. The term ‘shift working days’ was used to describe evening and night shifts. Participants who had smoked ≥5 packs of cigarettes during …

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    • Contributors AK: conception and design. AK and VD: data collection. DP and ME: data analysis AK, VD, DP and ME: manuscript draft. DT and BB: manuscript revision. All authors: data interpretation, final approval.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.