Smoking Cessation: Management Plan

This web site is operated by Moores University California San Diego (UCSD) Cancer Center under the direction of Shu-Hong Zhu, PhD, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine. It is called California Smokers' Helpline. Members of this center have been trained professionally about caring and helping smokers quit. Most of them have a bachelor’s degree or higher. The center has counselors that can speak fluently in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese – six languages spoken commonly in California – for helping services. These services are supported by California Department of Public Health, First 5 California, Center for Disease

You will listen to my voice taking you through the changes you want to make… As you are completely relaxed… you will respond to my suggestion… From now, you will stop smoking… This is your wish and desire on which you will act on from now… No one is able to make the change except yourself… Think of the positives gained by yourself in total command… your response is yours only… You are the only benefactor… Think of the harm cigarettes cause...think of lungs being completely black… foul smell from your mouth…your clothes smelling … continue with your breathing in and out...think of your family… Think of spending money on buying cigarettes as money going down the drain…Don’t turn them into passive smokers… your health and that of your family matters…You will continue with further sessions which will help you achieve the change…

Over the past decade, text messaging has become one of the most affordable and easily accessible form of communication. Along with the earlier mentioned growing number of young adults using tobacco products. These can go hand in hand due to the fact that text messaging can be used to promote healthy behavior to a huge amount of the U. S. population. Around 98% of the population has text messaging on their phones. thus a text based smoking cessation program can not only be cost effective, but can also provide interactive personalized counseling to a young college student. Text messaging smoking cessation programs can make this one-on-one counseling much easier since of the 70% of smokers that want to quit, only 51% actually meet with a physician to seek that type of help to attempt to quit.

The smoking cessation was witnessed by the author throughout her placement. This was used on a daily basis in the community by district nurses, health visitors, but especially by the general practice nurses as being incorporated in each consultation in the form of advices, leaflets, smoking cessation programs including medication and follow-ups.

The initial phase of the self-directed intervention consisted of baseline measurement of smoking behaviour. Baseline data was collected for a period of 7 weeks and a functional assessment was completed during this time. Upon starting the intervention phase, the final target behaviour of smoking cessation was broken down into smaller, short-term objectives lasting 2 weeks each.

Providers can uncover new and past symptoms by inquiring about patient’s and also utilizing tools, such as spirometry, for diagnostic purposes (Fromer, 2011). Professional ACNP’s should encourage patient training and education to help with disease knowledge and to help halt progression of future exacerbations (Fromer, 2011). As Damien’s ACNP, different methods to smoking cessation will be explained and encouraged. Not only are there in-person counseling sessions, but there are telephone counseling sessions, pharmacotherapy, nicotine products (patch, gum, lozenge, inhaler, nasal spray), hypnosis, laser therapy and acupuncture that can help with Damien’s smoking cessation process (Fromer, 2011). Also, stressing the importance of vaccinations, such as the flu or pneumococcal, is highly recommended for Damien’s case due to the many risk factors he imposes. According to Chorostecki et al. (2015), interprofessional (IP) care includes shared decision-making, collaborative problem solving, respect in the work field, and equal contribution among all healthcare team members. Implementing effective interprofessional collaboration can help enhance quality care in hospital,

-Therapeutic interventions: There are five steps to help a patient stop smoking, which are listed in the following: ask to identify smoking status at every visit, advise all smokers to quit, identify smokers who are open to make a cessation attempt, assist the patient to stop, and arrange a follow up. It is important that the provider refrain from expressing disapproval of patients who did not currently wish to stop smoking (Pignone & Salazar, 2018). Because

While smoking is a problem that affects millions of people in The United States, several different approaches are available to assist in breaking the habit; specifically, therapeutic approaches, when utilizing group sessions, one-on-one interaction, or self direction, do offer the ability to modify personal views, behaviors or other challenging issues to achieve predetermined results. Since each of the aforementioned options provide varying amounts of contact with trained therapists and other people, it is necessary to make a remedial selection based upon the comfortability and willingness of a person to openly talk about their dilemma with others.

Evidence-based cessation treatments, reducing patient costs for smoking cessation treatments, and reminders to health care professionals to encourage smoking cessation are all factors that pharmacists and health care professionals can influence and affect to provide patients with the greatest chance of dropping their habit. These goals can be accomplished by implementing healthcare administrators and health plans that can support clinical interventions that include coverage for smoking cessation treatments with no deductibles and co-payments, improving ways to identify patients that smoke and giving them the assistance they need in quitting, and implementing smoke free workplaces and healthcare centers. Programs that include multiple treatments are more successful than those with single interventions. Smoking cessation treatment usually consists of three phases: preparation, intervention and maintenance. The preparation phase is used to increase the smoker’s motivation to quit and to provide the needed motivation for that individual.

the withdrawal process, and present the reader the steps the body goes through to detox itself and

Tobacco use is widespread and has a heavy “burden of disease”. According to the U.S. department of Health and Human Services [HHS], tobacco use is related to over 443,000 Americans death each year and has caused approximately 8,860,000 related illnesses (2016). Thus causing it to have a higher mortality rate than “HIV, illegal drug use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. Tobacco use is thus one of the Nation’s deadliest and most costly public health challenges” (HHS, 2016). Tobacco can cause the onset of multiple diseases, for example, cancer, cardiovascular disease, asthma, COPD, pregnancy complications, SIDS, and oral diseases (HHS, 2016). The prevalence of tobacco use has been gradually decreasing since the nineteen sixty’s, but even today tobacco use is quite common.

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.

Most of the patients had an unfavourable attitude towards quitting tobacco usage. Hence there is an urgent need to intervene effective steps especially by carrying out community based educational programs by health professionals in collaboration with print and media in spreading awareness about the consequences of tobacco use and on counselling of patients for cessation of the habit.

All around the world, cigarette smoking is becoming an important and serious issue as time goes on. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, about 90% of adult smokers started smoking by the age of 18 in the United States which makes their health worse later in their lives (US Department of Health and Services). Some people who smoke a cigarette daily, smoking becomes their habit day by day which can be harmful for their lives. The World Health Organization stated that in the 20th century, a hundred million people died due to using tobacco and if the use of tobacco is continued in the 21st century, the death rate of people would go to 1 billion (WHO). Research has proven that cigarette smoking is affecting people physically and socially and it also reduces the person’s lifespan.

Primarily, tobacco cessation products serve as an instrumental need for tobacco users on an individual level. An instrumental need is a need not necessary for the benefit in itself, but for what it will enable an individual to have and do (90). It is a sound assumption when smokers choose to utilize tobacco cessation programs their goal is to quit. However, most smokers want to quit not just for the intrinsic satisfaction of quitting, but also for what quitting will allow the smoker to do and the broader goals they will be able to achieve. There are a number of reason smokers want to quit; the assumption is that quitting will produce an improvement in some aspect of the smoker’s life; whether it be lifestyle, health, or relationships. Therefore, tobacco cessation products are a not a need in themselves, but in what they will