Health Promotion Interventions Strategies to Change Smoking Behavior of Staff at Dr. Zainoel Abidin Provincial General Hospital, Banda Aceh

Smoking tobacco is a habit of individuals. 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. 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 hospital. Continuous evaluation, monitoring and
strengthening of policies banning smoking should be maintained in all hospitals.