Indonesia menduduki peringkat lima negara dengan konsumsi rokok terbanyak. Prevalensi merokok yang tinggi ditemukan pada golongan pekerjaaan pegawai dan usia kerja. Sebanyak 81,3 perokok mengetahui dampak buruk merokok, namun aktivitas merokok tetap naik setiap tahun. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menilai lebih dalam mengenai pengetahuan dan sikap merokok melalui metode penyuluhan terhadap masyarakat dari golongan tersebut. Penelitian dilakukan secara pre-eksperimental untuk menilai pengaruh penyuluhan terhadap pengetahuan dan sikap pegawai administrasi UI yang merokok aktif selama setahun terakhir. Subyek dipilih dengan metode purposive sampling n=25 dari pemeriksaan kesehatan. Pengetahuan dan sikap responden dinilai dengan pre-test post-test menggunakan kuesioner tervalidasi yang disusun sendiri. Subyek yang datang penyuluhan n=17 mengikuti seluruh tahapan dari awal hingga akhir. Mean nilai pengetahuan meningkat signifikan dengan nilai pre-test sebesar 18,4118 4,71777 dan post-test 27,0 6,66146 menggunakan uji Wilcoxon, p.

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Indonesia is amongst the five countries with highest consumption on tobacco. High smoking prevalence was found in employee occupation group and working age group. 81.3 of smokers already know the negative effects of smoking, but the amount of smokers still increase every year. Therefore, this research is designed to throughoutly assess the knowledge and attitude of smokers amongst the group mentioned above. This pre experimental designed research is conducted to assess the effect of education on knowledge and attittude of administration staff in UI who is still actively smoking over the past one year. The subjects were chosen by purposive sampling methods n 25 from a health screening before the education was conducted. The knowledge and attittude of the subjects is scored by a validated questionnaire developed for this research. There is no drop out subjects as all the subjects confirmed to come n 17 participate from beginning until the end. Mean of the knowledge score increases significantly by education with pre test score 18.4118 4.71777 and post test score 27.0 6.66146, using Wilcoxon test p.