Relación entre actividad física, consumo de tabaco y salud respiratoria en los estudiantes de la Facultad Ciencias Jurídicas y Políticas de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Loja - 2024

Abstract

Abstract: Smoking is a disease that was related to the habit of smoking, where university students showed high rates of consumption, due to lack of knowledge of the effects it generated. The most predominant factors are: sedentary lifestyle and physical inactivity, adding tobacco consumption, causing symptoms such as dyspnea in activities of great pulmonary effort, wheezing, morning, nighttime, productive cough and eye irritation, dysphagia and odynophagia was also related to a decrease in physical activity in patients who presented maximum oxygen consumption (VO2 Max) decreased, which presented a greater dependence on nicotine. The results during this investigation allowed us to find that in the Faculty of Law and Politics of the UTPL, a large part of the student population consume tobacco, in the spirometry values ​​no significance, while in the relationship between the consumption variables of tobacco with physical activity these are directly proportional, that is, to greater physical activity greater cigarette consumption.