[Treatment of chronic bronchitis in tobacco smokers under sanitorium conditions].

The efficacy of health resort treatment was studied in 227 tobacco smokers suffering from chronic bronchitis. It was found that by the end of the treatment course patients that gave up smoking as compared with those continuing smoking revealed an increased tolerance to physical loads, an improvement several external respiration indices. Biochemical findings and analysis of the mucus revealed a reduction of the inflammatory process in the bronchopulmonary system. Health resort rehabilitation treatment of chronic bronchitis was effective when the patients ceased smoking. The authors present a scheme of staged treatment of nicotinism in health resort conditions allowing to achieve success in 70.1% of patients.