Smoking cessation groups developed in a Family Health Strategy: experiences lived by resident professionals

• Autor(a) principal: Heck, Camila
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Diel, Andressa Caroline Loebens, Matter, Priscila da Silva, Fortes, Edna Margarete de Ávila
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de educação popular (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/reveducpop/article/view/49971
• topic: Tabagismo; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Saúde de Grupos Específicos; Abandono de Uso de Tabaco; Smoking; Primary Health Care; Health of Specific Groups; Abandonment of Tobacco Use

The smoking groups developed in the Primary Attention in Health represent an important strategy for the treatment of the smoker user. This text consists of a descriptive study that aims to report the experience of three resident health professionals, one nurse, one pharmacist and one psychologist, in tobacco cessation groups, developed in the Family Health Strategy of the municipality of Santa Rosa, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, between 2017 and 2018. The results showed similar characteristics in the majority of the groups that interfere to the low adherence to the treatment, the motivation of the participants, the integration among the members, and the organization and group dynamics as factors that interfere in cessation of tobacco use. Considering this, strategies should be adopted jointly with the multiprofessional team aiming at greater dissemination of the groups, dissemination of information to the population enrolled in the health territory and improvement by the professionals in the management and care of the smoker.