The aim of this research was to evaluate patient’s life habits after six months of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery to delineate a profile and direct therapeutic practice. It was conducted a prospective, quantitative and descriptive study. Patients were submitted to CABG in the Santa Casa Cardiology Hospital of Rio Grande/ Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil between 01/01/2011 and 30/06/2011. It was investigated socioeconomic, demographic, behavioral and healthy characteristics through International Physical Activity Questionnaire and Level of Stress Quesrtionnaire. Data were analyzed through SPSS statistic program. Between the nineteen subjects selected, the mean age was 63,8 + 9,6 years. All of them are not used to smoke, to drink and to take care of nutrition, nevertheless 74% was physically inactive and 58% presented physical stress in the alert phase and 69% presented psychic stress in the exhaustion phase. It was concluded that sedentarism and stress are much presented in the life of this group of people. Thus, it became necessary the development of public health actions to promote acute myocardial infarction (AMI) risk factors awareness and health knowledge in general to propose for these subjects a healthy quality life.