Smokers with intracranial aneurysms who underwent neurosurgical or endovascular treatment have not stopped smoking one year after surgery

Abstract

Forty-two per cent of smokers (48/114) were controlled one year after the treatment; 18.8% of them stopped smoking, 41.7% reduced smoking, and 39.6% continued to smoke as extensively as before. The prevalence of smoking in our sample 74% (114/154) was higher than in the Czech population (28.2%).

Keywords

• smoking
• smoking cessation
• intracranial aneurysm
• subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence
• subarachnoid hemorrhage
• risk-factors