title: [The analysis of smoking amongst students in the Public Higher Medical Professional School in Opole].
abstract: Making conditional on the smoking is making the essential problem of the contemporary society. Conducted examinations are pointing in Poland and in the world that the number of young people which are reaching for the first cigarette is soaring together with age. The aim of the study was an analysis of smoking amongst students of the Public Higher Medical Professional School in Opole. Group of 290 stationary and non-stationary students of the Nursing Institute and the Obstetrics Institute of the Public Higher Medical Professional School in Opole was put through an examination. Out of polled --72 students (24.8%) is smoking cigarettes but 218 students (75.2%) are non-smoking persons. 13.8% of the examined group of non-stationary students is smoking cigarettes, however smoking cigarettes is declaring 29% of the examined on stationary studies. Polled the most, well as far as 70.8%, began smoking cigarettes during the secondary school. 62.5% smoking persons tried to give up smoking having the harmfulness of smoking in mind. Unfortunately these attempts ended in failure. The students would expect the biggest support from close persons (the husband, the wife) during giving up smoking, 93.1% of examined is confirming such an opinion.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Pielegniarstwa Ogólnego Państwowej Medycznej Wyzszej Szkoły Zawodowej w Opolu. mariola30@onet.eu
authors.forename: Mariola
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wojtall
authors.forename: Donata
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kurpas
authors.forename: Lucyna
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sochocka
authors.forename: Mariola
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seń
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Steciwko
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*