Ações de educação em saúde no combate ao tabagismo: relato de experiência ; Health education actions in the fight against smoking: report of experience ; Acciones de educación en salud en el combate al tabaquismo: relato de experiencia

Smoking is a chronic disease caused by addiction to nicotine. It is directly related to high mortality, because it compromises physical and mental health of individuals and communities. This study aimed to report the experience of undergraduate nursing students in developing the campaign against smoking at the discipline supervised training course in Nursing I at the Firminópolis-GO campus. The supervised training is carried out for a month, in the last year of the undergraduate course in the form of multidisciplinary rural internship. In the beginning of the activities an operational planning took place, in which the activities related to smoking were highlighted. The strategies consisted of awareness on prevention and damage caused by tobacco. The activities of health promotion and prevention of injuries and diseases related to smoking consisted of action in health education directed to students from public schools, training of Community Health Agents to fight against tobacco use on May 31 – World No Tobacco Day- and participation of the university students in community radio programs. It is considered that the actions taken were of extreme importance in the care provided in primary care, given that the applied strategies effectively reached different audiences. ; El tabaquismo es una enfermedad crónica causada por la dependencia a la nicotina y está directamente relacionado con alta mortalidad, por perjudicar la salud física y mental de los individuos y comunidades. Este estudio tuvo por objetivo relatar la experiencia de estudiantes universitarios de Enfermería en el desarrollo de la campaña contra el tabaquismo en la disciplina de Prácticas Supervisada en Enfermería I en el campus avanzado de Firminópolis-GO. Las prácticas ocurren en el último año del curso superior en la modalidad de internado rural multidisciplinario, con duración de un mes. Al iniciar las actividades se realizó una planificación operacional, en la cual fueron destacadas actividades relacionadas con el tabaquismo. Las estrategias ...