الفهرس 
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Abstract
Background: Although much attention has been drawn to trends in smoking and smoking related diseases in the general population, increasing evidence suggests that individuals suffering from mental illness are at increased risk for tobacco use and nicotine addiction. Smoking is the single greatest preventable cause of death in our society. It is recently demonstrated that, in smokers compared with nonsmokers with schizophrenia, the risk of mortality is doubled, and the risk of cardiac-related morality is increased about 12-fold.
Aims: To study the pattern of tobacco use among schizophrenic patients. To measure how schizophrenic perceive the effect and risk of tobacco use in relation to their symptoms. To study the degree of motivation to quit in patients with schizophrenia. To highlight factors that increase severeity in tobacco use in schizophrenia.
Methodology: Study design: A case control study. Site of the study: The outpatient clinic and inpatient in the institute of psychiatry of Ain Shams University. Ain Shams University is located in Eastern Cairo and serves a catchment area of about the third of Greater Cairo. It serves both urban and rural areas, including areas around Greater Cairo as well.
Results: The sample was consisting of patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia attending the outpatient clinic or inpatient of the institute of psychaitry Ain Shams University Hospitals. The sample size were consisted of 180 patients and they were selected randomly.
Conclusion: This is study emphasize on the relation between tobacco smoking and schizophrenia, it demonstrate the pattern of smoking in the given sample of patients with schizophrenia who underwent treatment in inpatient and outpatient facilities.
Recommendation: Test the Nicotine dependence as a part of the routine assessment of patients with schizophrenia. Further research of tobacco smoking in patients with schizophrenia a larger multi-center study to involve patients with different sociodemographic variables