The anti-smoking fight in the Faculty of Physical Culture of the Universidad de Oriente

Abstract

The addiction called smoking, due to the toxins and carcinogens it contains, its addictive power, the ease of acquiring and consuming it, constitutes a risk factor for everyone's health, mainly for young people. Starting from this premise, the need arises to investigate a way to reduce smoking in students of the Faculty of Physical Culture from the professional training process, with the purpose of developing an educational instrument that uses educational work as a fundamental tool. The selection of the sample was intentional and was made up of 52 students, which represent 65.8 % of the enrollment of the 1st and 2nd year of the Day Course of the Faculty of Physical Culture of the Universidad de Oriente, in Santiago de Cuba. During the study, theoretical level methods were used: analysis – synthesis; at the empirical level: observation, specialist judgment and document review; the techniques: interview and survey; and from statistics the percentage calculation. The need to direct educational work based on the reduction of smoking in students was evident, proposing a manual as a fundamental tool as a way to raise awareness among students, and that, together with teachers, they adopt a determined and active attitude against this addiction, since tobacco is the most widely used drug and causes the greatest health problems to the body.