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Staff smoking has been an undesirable phenomenon at Dr. Zainoel Abidin Provincial General Hospital in Banda Aceh.
Health promotion efforts are a strategy that has resulted in behavioral changes with reductions in
smoking by staff. This action
research was designed to analyze changes in smoking behavior of hospital staff. The sample for this
research was all 152 male
staff who were smokers. The results of this research showed that Health Promotion Interventions (HPI)consisting of personal
empowerment plus social support and advocacy to improve employee knowledge and attitudes influenced
staff to stop or to
significantly. HPI employed included counseling programs, distribution of antismoking leaflets, putting up
antismoking
posters, and installation of no smoking signs. These HPI proved effective to increase knowledge and create a positive attitude to
nonsmoking that resulted in major reductions in smoking by staff when offsite and complete cessation of smoking whilst
in the
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