Investigation of the Effects of Smoking Addiction and Physical Activity on Some Respiratory Functions in Young Adult Males

Muhammed Fatih Bilici,Ali Türker

doi:10.11114/jets.v7i12.4585

Abstract

The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of smoking addiction and physical activity on some respiratory functions in young adult males. 120 male students who have no health problem with an age average of 21,00 (years) , height average of 174,2 (cm) and weight average of 69,62 (kg) have voluntarily participated in the study. The students participating in the study have been categorized according to their condition of doing exercise and addiction to smoking. Spirometer (Pony Fx, Italy) was used to determine pulmonary functions of students. In the statistical analysis of the obtained data SPSS program has been used. The normality distribution of the data has been identified with Shapiro-Wilk test. In the analysis of the data which have no normal distribution, Kruskal Wallis test and in the sub groups Mann- Whitney U test has been used. It has been determined that FVC, FEV1, FEF25-75% (L/s), PEF (L/s), VC and MVV values of the student groups who doing regular exercise are significantly higher than the student groups who do not (p<0,05). No statistically significant difference has been found in FEV1/FVC(%) value among the groups (p>0,05). It has been found that smoking addiction is effective on PEF value in a significant level (p<0,05).

Highlights

Sportive activities, because of their physical and physiological advantages, are one of the important social activities that people prefer for a suitable physical structure and to protect general health (Kürkçü& Gökhan, 2011)
According to our research results, it has been identified that FVC and FEV1 values of the student groups doing sports is significantly higher than the student groups who do not do sports (p
It has been determined that there is no statistically significant difference in FVC and FEV1 values between the student groups doing sports with smoking addiction and the student group who do not smoke but do sports (p>0,05). It has been established in many studies that long term and regular exercises develop respiratory muscles and increase respiratory function capacity (Robinson et al, 1982; Johnson et al, 1996; Gökdemir et al, 2007; Sable et al, 2012; Ahmadi et al, 2013)

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Because of their physical and physiological advantages, are one of the important social activities that people prefer for a suitable physical structure and to protect general health (Kürkçü& Gökhan, 2011). Regular exercises directly affect physical and physiological development. Exercise and physical activity which are highly important for the development of a healthy physical structure contribute to the development of many systems in the body and the functioning of those systems in a healthy way. Respiratory system is one of the systems that exercise and physical activity directly affect (Alpay et al, 2007). In the literature, it is possible to encounter many studies determining that respiratory functions spoil because of smoking habits (Mehta et al, 2016). It has still been a debate how those both factors together effect respiratory functions

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