PINHO, Vanessa Dordron de    OLIVA, Angela Donato. Social skills in smokers, non-smokers and ex-smokers. Rev. bras.ter. cogn. []. 2007, 3, 2. ISSN 1808-5687.

The aim of this research was to try to apprehend the relation between social skills and being a smoker, a non-smoker or a former smoker. This study’s hypothesis was that former smokers would be more socially skilled. A social skills inventory was applied to 148 people. The data were processed by SPSS version 13.0 and descriptive analyses were made, as well as a multiple regressive calculation. The study was conducted with individuals with a high level of education and therefore did not allow for broader conclusions that could extend to the population as a whole. Despite no significant differences, former smokers seemed to display more elaborate social skills, which suggest that researches with a larger number of individuals are needed in order to clarify the relation between social skills and the condition of being a smoker, a non-smoker or a former smoker. Although this is a preliminary study, the results follow the same tendencies observed in other studies in which variables are identified that act like a protection or a favoring factor to tobacco addiction, as well as factors that facilitate the treatment of addiction. Future investigations on the subject are necessary to improve prevention strategies and the treatment of tobacco addiction

: Tobacco; Social skills; Addiction to nicotine.

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