O repensar das formas de agir do homem cigano frente ao consumo de tabaco.

Abstract

Gypsies are a people of authentic social representativeness, because they seek to preserve the memory of the culture of this population, being passed on from generation to generation. However, caution is needed in the activities developed by constant cultural practice, alerting to acquired vices and identifying evils, such as tobacco consumption, which can cause harm to health both individually, and collectively. Through the health problem identified in the gypsy community, this study promoted ways of rethinking the behavior of the gypsy man in the face of tobacco consumption. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach using action research. The same was developed with 10 gypsy men from the gypsy community, Rancho de Cima, from the city of Sousa, in the state of Paraiba. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, analyzed descriptively and the discourses organized before the use of the Discourse of the Collective Subject. The research began, after the approval of the project by the Research Ethics Committee under opinion nº 2,338,568. The development of the study took place in four stages: situational diagnosis, projection of actions, and implementation of the same and evaluation of actions. The activities provided the discussion of the evils arising from smoking, exposing mechanisms of contribution and strategies of ways of rethinking the behavior of men smoking gypsies in the face of addiction, with a focus on health education actions, in order to share knowledge, experiences and experiences. As a result of the study, the scarcity of contact and knowledge of smokers is identified as being due to the aforementioned types and forms of treatment, considering that this study did not have the character of offering treatments, but to raise awareness and promote ways of acting against smoking among Roma men. This makes the role of AB in contact with the needs and productions of care in this scenario become relevant.