Characterization of Smoking in Adolescents from the Medical Sciences in Cuba

Abstract

Background: The characterization in adolescent’s smokers as prevention from the medical sciences is one of the lines of the work team in the consultation of Ceasing Tobacco. Objective: To characterize of smoking in adolescents from the medical sciences in Cuba. The investigation embraced one period from January 2019 to September 2019. Method: A descriptive study of traverse court was used. Registered to 41 students for sampling intentional non probabilistic, of an universe of 80 adolescent students. It was used empiric methods; clinical histories, interviews structured and the questionnaire. Results: The male sex prevailed, where 51,2 % of the active smoking adolescents was understood between the 13 and 15 years of age, 78 % of these they began to smoke between the 12 and 15 years. Conclusion: Of why the most frequent reasons began to smoke it was the relaxation and the pressure group given by a code of companionship.