Zero Tobacco – Community intervention students' Health Education at the University of Évora

Abstract

Smoking is said by the World Health Organization as the leading cause of preventable disease and death. A comprehensive strategy to tackle this scourge includes treatment, control, prevention, awareness and information. In the area of prevention, counseling 3 min may have a success rate in smoking cessation than 2%, while a 10-minute brief advice could reach 3%. Given these principles, nursing students of Health Education in Evora University held semiannually brief counseling on smoking prevention in the city of Évora. This paper gives an account of the organizational structure of the community intervention and the alarming results of prevalence of intakes that met in the last three years.