ABSTRACT
The attitude to the habit of smoking among health workers influences the consumption of tobacco by the public. In the University School of Nursing a programme about tobacco was carried out with three aims: to train students in the development of health education programmes; to achieve, for the first time in our country, a nursing school officially called a ‘non-smoking’ school; to decrease the consumption of tobacco among people – students, professors and the staff-from the nursing school. This chapter describes the method used in the development of a health education programme, which emphasized leisure activities and the positive aspects of non-smoking behaviour, and other strategies for giving up smoking, through nicotine chewing-gum, group psychotherapy and support from their peers.
