Health evaluation of the 2nd International "Quit and Win" Antinicotine Campaign participants ten years later.
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.
Kowalska
Alina
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Chair of Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical University of Lodz. alina.kowalska@vp.pl
Stelmach
Włodzimierz
W
Krakowiak
Jan
J
Rzeźnicki
Adam
A
Pikala
Małgorzata
M
Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk
Elzbieta
E
Drygas
Wojciech
W
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