Smoking Cessation In Young Adults

Significant number of people has been addicted to the habit of smoking despite of knowing the fact that it is injurious to health. In the past, it was considered as the taboos and only adult group was habituated but currently, it is common among both adolescent and adult population. Cigarette smoking is habit of inhaling smoke of cigarette and releasing it. A study by Gong (2011, pp.48) reveals that the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adult of age group 45-65years is higher than adolescent age group 15-24 years with 63% and 33.6% respectively.

The mission of Reducing Cigarette Smoking in American Adults is to teach the community about the effects of smoking and its negative effects. The accomplishments will be educating the participants on how they can quit smoking and become healthier in life. Quitting smoking on your own without support is kind of difficult for all smokers. But it is kind of easy when they get support from people around them, especially their parents, friends, and community. The program will teach them how to exercise stopping smoking and improve their chances of success.

Smoking cessation is the process of quitting tobacco smoking. Studies have shown that smoking is a preventable cause of death worldwide. The ability to quit tobacco has immediate and long term health benefits for all users. By quitting, there is a significant reduction from the risk of death that comes from tobacco-related diseases, most notably, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, difficulty breathing, or chronic obstructive airways disease, as well as tumors of the mouth, throat, esophagus, lungs and bladder. Other neoplastic and respiratory causes of death affect neonates and infants secondary to maternal smoking, cigarette-caused fires and second hand smoke.

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths. Every year 439,000 people die from smoking. Non-smokers live about an average of 10 years more than smokers.

Smoking cessation interventions require a holistic approach consisting of educational and behavioral intervention and medications. Whether by itself or in combination, an intervention has the capacity to supplement the efficacy of smoking cessation. In order to achieve the steps needed to facilitate this kind of underpinning, the employment of educational interventions coupled with the participants knowledge, disease process and motivation to decrease or quit smoking must be factored in (Patel, 2009). A teachable moment is what will be able to offered help increase the participants motivation in order to decrease the frequency of smoking or cessation, in the form of small effective and inexpensive weekly classes in a community setting (Appendix H, I), which includes teaching about their disease process, the effects of smoking on every organ in their body and the reduction in health of smokers in general (CDC, 2017).

They became a regular smoker since then. Three in four people have tried to quit smoking but failed, because nicotine in cigarettes can easily get teenagers addicted. In order to prevent teenager smoking, we must understand why and how they tried their first tobacco product.

According to the Department of Health (2003), Cancer Research UK (2010) and the Office of National Statistics (2004), despite of the drop of statistics of smokers, there are still individuals who would try smoking especially the young people between the ages of eleven to sixteen. In the report of the three offices they listed the main reasons why young people smoke and these are experimentation, to look mature or part of their image, there are older people smokes around them, especially their parents, and peer pressures (DH, 2003) (ONS, 2004) (CR UK, 2010).

The continuous use of tobacco has led to a pediatric epidemic, and it’s not only in other countries, but also right here in the United States. Even through all the progress that has been made in the United States, one out of four high school seniors smokes cigarettes regularly. In the article “Tobacco Use is a Serious Problem” states “Because few high school smokers are able to break free from the powerful addicting effects of

The recent outward increase in young adult smoking, compares trends in smoking among young adults with trends in the use of other substances. National data propose that the recent detected an increase in smoking among young adults is primarily an artefact of the almost simultaneous increase in smoking among high school students. In addition, however, it also appears that there have been real changes in smoking patterns among young adults. While many questions remain regarding recent trends in tobacco and other drug use among adolescents and young adults. Raising the legal minimum age for purchasers to 21 and enforcing higher tax on tobacco products in North Carolina would result in a decline in teenage smoking rates.

Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year (CDC 1). Tobacco has been in America’s society for hundreds of years but has become a major problem in the 21st century because of the harsh problems it carries. Tobacco use is starting to affect everyone. Every day, large amounts of Americas youth are being introduced to cigarettes and other tobacco related products. The number of teen smokers is rising and even non-smokers are now being affected. Steps need to be taken in order to reduce and ultimately eliminate tobacco use in America. Smoking is being introduced to large amounts of youth every day and needs to be put to an end to stop this killing trend.

Every teen may be too eager to become an adult since they know that it will allow them to have more freedom to do things on their own and to make their own decisions without the need for anyone’s approval. However, some teens may not feel like waiting for too long. Hence, some would do activities that would make them feel and look like adults. This is just one of the many reasons why teens choose to smoke at a young age. Notwithstanding the risks that smoking can do to their health, it can be an exhilarating experience for them to puff on that stick which they often see from other adults.

With all the medical advice, warnings, and health risks that come with smoking, some teenagers are just too curious and need to test it out for themselves. No matter how old or young you are, the first cigarette consumed generally triggers coughing, dizziness, and shortness of breath. “Maybe I can smoke just one…” Unfortunately, many teens don’t just try one cigarette and then forget about it; they continue to become recurrent

The aim of my proposal is to give valuable information about smoking and smoking cessation in a presentation that could be helpful to teenagers and pregnant women who want to quit smoking. The presentation will use simple pictures and language to make it easy for everybody to learn about the harmful impact of smoking on health. Along with this, there are three key goals of tobacco control exercises: To lessen the use of smoking, to discontinue smoking, diminishing introduction to a second-hand smoker. In this presentation I will discuss different strategies that are identified to stop smoking, for example, strategies to stop routine use of smoking in New Zealand, the viability of these strategies, health related dangers of smoking, the benefits of stopping smoking.

Today one of our biggest challenges as public health professionals is tobacco use which is a leading cause of deaths that be prevented with public health campaign intervention programs. According to the American Lung Association (2010), 6.4 million current child smokers will die a premature death from a smoking-related disease. The campaign is working to give teenagers information on understanding the health risks associated with smoking and long-term health risk when they become adults. By using the support of different models on behavior following we can gain a better understanding on how and why adolescents respond the way they do to smoking. It is important that a campaign on tobacco and nicotine emphasizes awareness

Nine out of every ten smokers tried their first cigarette before the age of 18, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, (“Youth and Tobacco Use”). The eyes of many open once they experience a loved one that suffered from addiction . In the United States, there are many active companies that are trying to increase the awareness of youth smoking. American Lung Association tries to inform parents and children about the risk smoking has to our bodies, (“Our Mission”). To dramatically improve the health of the youth, many organizations come together to inform the youth of the effects smoking has on them.