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Beliefs among smokers in a cardiovascular health program

The present investigation by means of boarding quanti-qualitative, identifies the beliefs of tobacco consumers, users of a program of promotion of the cardiovascular health in the city of Bogotá-Colombia. The information harvesting became from recorded interviews in depth of 15 persons of the promotion group, who voluntarily constituted the provisory sample until obtaining the thematic saturation of the issue one. The data were analysed and the results considered by the culture. We obtained with it a large description of motivations and discouraging factors for the tobacco smocking.

religion; tobacco smocking; cardiovascular health; nursing


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