Sosialisasi Pijat Akupresur Untuk Mengurangi Keinginan Merokok pada Masyarakat RW 05 RW 05 Kelurahan Nginden Jangkungan Kota Surabaya

Abstract

Smoking behavior is still a problem in the community. Such behavior can certainly threaten the comfort and health of those around him, especially children. One of the effects of smoking too often is smoking can be attacked by lung cancer. Therefore, it is very important to provide information to residents around the dangers of smoking and make an effort to reduce the desire to smoke by means of acupressure massage.

This community service activity was carried out in RT 05 RW 05, Nginden Jangkungan, Surabaya. This socialization was carried out using lecture, question and answer methods, watching videos, and acupressure massage practices. The target of the implementation of this service is to increase the understanding of citizens related to the dangers of smoking for the people around him and can practice acupressure massage that serves to reduce the desire to smoke. Outputs from this activity include publication in scientific journals, information on increasing target knowledge and the ability to do acupressure massage. Knowledge improvement is measured through pre-test and post-test. Socialization participants were 20 residents, most of them aged around 35-60 years.

The results of the evaluation of the socialization participants' knowledge assessment found that most of the participants experienced an increase in knowledge about the dangers of smoking (10%). Besides that, acupressure massage technique training which is directly practiced by residents shows that the residents are very enthusiastic in practicing it. Because this acupressure massage is a new thing for residents and very easy to do. This socialization is carried out to provide understanding and alternative ways to reduce the desire to smoke in order to avoid the negative effects of smoking which can endanger yourself or others