The prevention of smoking in adolescents, a challenge for the current Cuban school (Original).

Abstract

This article is the result of the project "The pedagogical training of High School students towards the local transformation of the Holguin territory". The subject that was studied constitutes a worldwide problem and a concern in Cuban educational institutions, since smoking constitutes an addiction that affects health and the environment. Different methods of theoretical level were used in the investigation: historical-logical, analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive, modeling and empirical level: observation, survey, interview, documentary review, partial experimentation in the field and statistical percentage calculation. The results of the applied diagnosis show that the students of the selected sample present initial manifestations of tobacco consumption. To mitigate the insufficiencies detected, a Group Reflection Workshop was developed for the prevention of smoking in adolescent students. The results achieved from the application of the proposal evidenced its effectiveness and relevance.