Abstract
Objective: To approach on the issue of smoking, its promotion and prevention, carried out through search form for smokers and children and adolescents exposed to smoking, guided by the theoretical-methodological Institutional Analysis framework in its Institutional Socioclinical modality. Methods: Research intervention with qualitative approach having, as participants, health professionals from three teams, faculty and students of pharmacy. Data production occurred through meetings with participants, journal of the researcher and minutes of meetings with smokers. Results: It was evidenced the little involvement of health and education institutions in the promotion and prevention of smoking and the vulnerability of children and adolescents in smoking initiation. This result favored that strategies were sought and among them a form to identify smokers, among them who wanted to quit smoking and the presence of children and or adolescents in the families of smokers. Conclusion: It considers that the instituting movements that emerged from the debates favored the participants to broaden their knowledge about smoking and institutional socio-clinics. It points out that the changes in that scenario will happen gradually considering the resistance to new practices that oppose the old practices.