Community Empowerment in The Context of Implementing Smoking Free Area

The study began with the formulation of an innovative and creative experiment by developing a smoke-free area program. This program has been carried out in several places, namely, health education, smoking supervisors in households, construction of cigarette corners and appointment of anti-smoking cadres, consultation on smoking arrangements, and the establishment and declaration of a smoke-free area. The sample size was 30 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. It is important to increased knowledge of the community about the dangers of smoking, as well as prevention efforts. Among the ways are providing cigarette corners, health promotion media containing efforts to prevent smoking and the dangers and effects of smoking for health. Cigarette corners that have been made into a gathering place for smokers to reduce the number of smokers in the house, and make a declaration of smoke-free areas by the community together with village officials. Establishment of Committed Families and Anti-smoking Supervisor Cadres through Regulations of Village Heads. For sustainability, hopefully cadres and community leaders socializing the smoke free area rules routinely, and impose sanctions for violators.