title: [The nursing students of Public Higher Medical Professional School in Opole spreading non-smoking lifestyle].
abstract: The promotion of health is a science and art of helping people to change their environment and lifestyle to a health friendly one, in order to strengthen and build up their wellbeing. Smoking cigarettes is a most disadvantageous element of a lifestyle. Important elements of promotion of non-smoking lifestyle, by our students, as future Health Service members, are: promoting of smoke-free environment, encouraging of non-smoking fashion, education of health consequences of smoking cigarettes, motivation to quit smoking, advisement in the field of smoking addiction treatment. Public health and health promotion, these are classes where smoking cigarettes' problem has been discussed mostly. Over 90% of students' respondents claim that were able to give a nonsmoking advice to any patient. Because of the awareness of health threats caused by smoking cigarettes and because of the role of education in prevention and addiction fighting, over 82.4% of students were convinced that every doctor should ask every patient, about his/her attitude towards smoking cigarettes.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Pielegniarstwa Ogólnego, Państwowa Medyczna Wyzsza Szkoła Zawodowa w Opolu. mariola30@onet.eu
authors.forename: Mariola
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wojtal
authors.forename: Donata
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kurpas
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bielska
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Steciwko
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland; D011159:Population Surveillance; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult