title: [Students of nursing and nicotine dependence].
abstract: Tobacco smoking is a significant part of life stile and the factor, which determinates state of health in a high rate. It is a very important social problem in Poland, because in spite of relative extensive knowledge about tobacco influence on bio-, psycho-, socio-well being, percentage of smokers is still high. These remarks should lead to creation "the fashion of no smoking" among future health care workers. According to organized activity cycle in the first stage this research we decided to diagnose the environment of the students and then to plane and implement health promotion and disease prevention activities, and finally evaluate them. The aim of the study was to analyze tobacco smoking among students of Nursing. The problems concerned level of dependence, readiness to stop smoking and knowledge about harmfulness of nicotine.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Zdrowia Publicznego, Katedra Medycyny Społecznej, Akademii Medycznej w Poznaniu. zysmonika@interia.pl
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zysnarska
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Biskupska
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Połocka-Molińska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004501:Education, Medical; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology