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Introduction Smoking is the cause of multiple diseases. Effective treatment is critical, and when there is, and fails, to detect posible contributing factors. Objectives Analyze the characteristics of people who fail in anti-smoking treatment. Material and methods Retrospective study of the patients evaluated in smoking unit between 2009-2011. Patients who had treatment failure were detected and were compared with those who had any time of abstinence. Chi square, Fisher statistic and student t was used. We defined failure as that one who has not been able to leave smoking even 24 hours. Results N=901 patients. 83 failed. Conclusions 1. Male gender influences in therapeutic failure. 2. Age, number of cigarettes, ECM and SBP are also associated. 3. Among respiratory diseases, suffering COPD and SAHS is more likely to fail. 4. Arrythmias, dyslipidemia, IBD and neoplasias also have a higher frecuency of treatment failure. 5. Neither psychiatric illness nor the use of other drugs or alcohol were associated with a higher frecuency of failure.

Introduction Smoking is a systemic disease. It is the the most important isolated cause of premature morbidity and mortality preventable and avoidable in developed countries. Multiple diseases and pathological conditions are directly caused or have been related to snuff exposure. Objectives We decided to see if with the experience the success rate, defined as a year of continuous abstinence, of our patients had improved. Material and methods Retrospective study using the database of our unit over years 2008 and 2012. Chi-square test was used to compare the success and relapse in one year and another, and student t test and chi-square were used to compare if the main characteristic of the samples were comparable.The study was made with all the patients who attended to the consultation. Results Conclusions: 1- More patients in 2012 than in 2008, but there were no differences in success. 2- Patients in 2008 smoked more and had more dependence. 3- There were fewer relapses in 2012. 4- We got more abstinence days in 2008.