Investigation of The Effect of Smoking on Some Blood Parameters and Respiratory Functions in Wrestlers

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of smoking on some blood parameters and respiratory functions inwrestlers. To the study 18 non-smoker wrestling athletes for at least 11,500 years, studying at different departments at MuğlaSıtkı Koçman University Faculty of Sport Sciences, whose average age 20,888, average height 177,555, average weight 82,777 kg;and 16 athletes smoking 15, 062 pieces of cigarettes in a day for averagely 3, 406 years, doing licenced wrestling at least for11,625 years whose average age 22, 000, height average 179,375, weight average 86, 250; a total of 34 male individualsvoluntarily participated in the study. Height and body weight measurements, blood analysis and pulmonary function testswere respectively applied to the participants. Statistical analysis of the obtained data was done by SPSS 21.00 package program.Since the data were distributed normally, the Independent-Samples T Test was used for intergroup comparisons, and the levelof significance was set at p