title: Health evaluation of the 2nd International "Quit and Win" Antinicotine Campaign participants ten years later.
abstract: Smoking is one of the most often noticed types of negative behaviour among the Poles. In the work, the results of the health evaluation are presented of the participants of the 'Quit and Win' competition ten years after making a decision to refrain from smoking, also the dependency between this evaluation and behaviour connected with smoking among the people living in big cities and small towns and villages was analysed. Among the 648 respondents, majority, which is 302 people (46.6%) evaluated their health as good, 236 (36.4%) as average, and 76 of the questioned (11.7%) as very good, 29 people (4.5%) as bad, and 5 of the questioned (0.8%) as very bad. The respondents most often evaluated negatively their health in the group of the still smoking living in the big cities, and the least often in the group of the non-smokers living in small towns and villages.
authors.affiliation: Chair of Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical University of Lodz. alina.kowalska@vp.pl
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kowalska
authors.forename: Włodzimierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stelmach
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krakowiak
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rzeźnicki
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pikala
authors.forename: Elzbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Drygas
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006293:Health Promotion; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012423:Rural Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D040241:Social Marketing; D014504:Urban Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data