Munter Gabriel, Brivik Yehuda, Freier-Dror Yossi, Zevin Shoshana
Department of Internal Medicine C, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, affiliated with Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Department of Internal Medicine, Bikur Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Isr Med Assoc J. 2017 Jan;19(1):25-29.
Cigarette smoking is a widespread problem around the world. In Israel, the prevalence of smoking is 23%. Smokers who are Orthodox abstain from smoking during the Sabbath, i.e., from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, due to a religious prohibition. The prevalence of smoking among Orthodox men is 13%. However, there are no data on patterns of smoking or on the addiction profiles in this population.
To explore the smoking patterns, motivation for smoking and nicotine addiction among Orthodox Jewish men, compared to non-Orthodox men, as well as the differences in the urge to smoke and withdrawal symptoms on Saturday versus weekdays in the Orthodox group.
The participants completed the Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence, questionnaires on reasons for smoking and smoking patterns, as well as two brief questionnaires on the urge to smoke and withdrawal symptoms after overnight abstinence on a weekday and after the end of the Sabbath.
Both groups were strongly addicted to nicotine and there were no differences in the reasons for smoking, withdrawal symptoms and nicotine craving after an overnight abstinence on weekdays. However, religious smokers had low levels of craving for nicotine and few withdrawal symptoms during Sabbath abstinence when compared to weekdays.
Although we found no difference in the baseline characteristics with regard to nicotine addiction, smoking motivation, urge to smoke and withdrawal symptoms between religious and non-religious groups, the former are able to abstain from smoking during 25 hours of the Sabbath every week with significantly fewer withdrawal symptoms compared to week days.
吸烟是一个全球性的普遍问题。在以色列，吸烟率为23%。由于宗教禁令，东正教吸烟者在安息日（即从周五日落到周六日落）期间戒烟。东正教男性的吸烟率为13%。然而，关于该人群的吸烟模式或成瘾情况尚无数据。
探讨与非东正教男性相比，东正教犹太男性的吸烟模式、吸烟动机和尼古丁成瘾情况，以及东正教群体在周六与工作日相比吸烟冲动和戒断症状的差异。
参与者完成了尼古丁依赖的Fagerstrom测试、关于吸烟原因和吸烟模式的问卷，以及两份关于工作日过夜 abstinence后和安息日结束后的吸烟冲动和戒断症状的简短问卷。
两组都对尼古丁有强烈的成瘾性，在工作日过夜 abstinence后，吸烟原因、戒断症状和尼古丁渴望方面没有差异。然而，与工作日相比，宗教吸烟者在安息日 abstinence期间对尼古丁的渴望程度较低，戒断症状也较少。
尽管我们发现宗教和非宗教群体在尼古丁成瘾、吸烟动机、吸烟冲动和戒断症状的基线特征方面没有差异，但前者每周能够在安息日的25小时内戒烟，与工作日相比，戒断症状明显较少。
