O hábito usual de tabaco em suas diversas formas entre acadêmicos de fisioterapia da Unicesumar

Abstract

Smoking is considered a major cause of preventable death in the world. Currently, the use of traditional cigarettes, hookahs and electronic cigarettes has become a very common habit among university students. Knowing that smoking is responsible for 12% of adult mortality worldwide, the objective of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of the use of these forms of tobacco among students of the Physiotherapy course at Universidade Cesumar -UniCesumar. This is a cross-sectional descriptive-exploratory and qualitative study that used a self-administered questionnaire formulated by the researchers and made available via the messaging application to the students as a research tool. Of the 150 guests, 147 were included, and of these, 71.4% were female and 28.6% male. The results of the questions regarding the smoking habit were: 47.3% of the interviewees said they use tobacco, with the Hookah being the most used form (36.3%); 15.2% make their use associated with drinking alcohol; 69.2% agree that the varieties of essences available are an attractive factor for the use of tobacco in this modality; 69.4% believe that the narghile smoke is harmful even when it is not swallowed; 93.2% agree that it is possible to acquire some type of disease when sharing the device's toecap; 54.4% believe that Hookah is as harmful to health as ordinary cigarettes; and 31.5% of tobacco users claim to have been influenced by the social group to which they belong, despite having prior knowledge about the risks that the practice brings. It is concluded that the prevalence of smoking, especially Narguilé, is high among the students of the Physiotherapy course at UniCesumar, thus showing the importance of implementing awareness policies in the academic ambiance.