DISCUSSION
Since you cannot tackle what you are unaware of, the first step in decreasing tobacco smoking is to identify who the smokers are. These could be potential or current users of tobacco and tobacco products or people who are affected by environmental smoke also known as secondhand smoke. Health care providers cannot stop or reduce usage in a patient if they do not know whether the patient is a beginner or a current user. In the health care system, the family physicians are usually the primary contact point. During the process of screening, they are able to identify patients who use tobacco and other tobacco-related products, and those who have substance use disorder. They, therefore, connect them to appropriate personnel and facilities for continued treatment. Screening does not only involve patients who are active or potential smokers. Children are also screened to find out if they are in any way exposed to second-hand smoke from parents and caregivers, in which case, efforts are made to protect the children and encourage the parents to follow cessation measures. Reducing the prevalence of adolescent tobacco use may be as simple as screening or rendering brief counseling during an office visit (Stein et al., 2000). Each office visit serves as a great opportunity for the provider to offer screening services since they have frequent contact with the patients and are able to interact with, and guide them. Health professionals play a vital role in educating their
3. Preventive Care and Screening for Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention – Percentage of patients aged 18 years and older who were screened for tobacco use one or more times within a 24-month period and who had received cessation counseling intervention if they were identified as a tobacco user.
One health promotion idea that the nurse practitioner would discuss with a middle adolescent patient would be the need to avoid using tobacco products and the negative effects of using tobacco. An important fact to remember is that adolescent smokers are more likely than nonsmoking peers to use marijuana and hard drugs, sell drugs, have multiple drug problems, drop out of school, and experience early pregnancy and parenthood, so the importance of avoiding tobacco will be of high significance when performing education with an adolescent patient ( Burns, Dunn, Brady, Starr, & Blosser, 2013). At every visit, the nurse practitioner should asses the patient's smoking patterns with direct questions and ask if they or any of their friends smoke
As healthcare providers, we have a key role to play in fighting the use of tobacco. Tobacco smoking is detrimental to the health of the smoker or second hand smoke can be very harmful to the family as well as his friends. We can encourage them to use the Tips from Former Smokers (TIPS) Campaign. This campaign provides a lot of resources for healthcare professionals and our patients. (cdc.gov). We can also instruct the patients to avoid smoker friends, educate them on the morbidity and mortality related to smoking, and also provide them with Nicotine patch or to chew hard candy any time they feel the urge to
In the United States, great efforts have been made to reduce morbidity and mortality from tobacco use, but progress in decreasing the prevalence of tobacco use has slowed. Annually, tobacco use results in nearly 500,000 deaths, and is one of the primary causes of avoidable morbidity and mortality in society.1 Healthcare professionals such as physicians can make a positive impact on the rates of tobacco use cessation among patient smokers by using proper counseling.2 Physicians have been trained to make such interventions during scheduled appointment with patients by using the 5 A’s approach, which involves asking patients about tobacco use during each visit, advising those who use tobacco to quit, assessing readiness to quit, assisting
People smoke cigarettes for various reasons. Some smoke only when they are drinking alcohol and others smoke regularly. The level of smoking among the regular smokers varies from individual to individual. There are those who smoke a cigarette or two during the day and their others who smoke at least a pack a day. How people start to smoke varies. The main entry point however is peer pressure. Many smokers came to be introduced to the habit at a young age in either high school or in college or to better state it, while in that age group.
Tobacco use has and still continues to be a major health issue. The knowledge of tobacco use has increased throughout the years. There have been many major scientific studies that show various theories on tobacco use. Studies have shown that tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of leading death rates. According to Healthy People 2020, tobacco use causes several types of cancer such as lung, stomach, liver, pancreas, kidney, bladder etc. Tobacco use can also lead to heart disease (stroke), lung disease, reproductive effects, along with other effects such as type two diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, blindness, cataracts, immune function, and overall diminished health. The CDC states new cases on tobacco use in the United States, conducted
Were there strategies used by public figures to create and spread doubt over scientific findings? In the early 1950s, the Tobacco industry was in disarray over the release of a scientific paper, on several mediums, that demonstrated the connection between the carcinogens in cigarette smoke to several types of cancer. In reaction to this devastating paper, Tobacco executives banded together along with a public relations firm, R.J. Reynolds, in order to shroud the reality of the situation; the actions taken by the Tobacco industry, ranging from funding distracting research to using public figures to speak on topics they had no authority in, would lead to an era of shrouding not only research concerning cigarettes, but also realizations about other issues, such as global warming and acid rain. There is no issue more important, out of those that were shrouded in doubt, than that of nuclear winter. By the 1980s, when President Reagan introduced his plan, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI for short), there were numerous scientists who opposed it, however in the face of this massive opposition, several figures who had assisted in the tobacco campaign began to speak out in favor of the SDI, and attack the scientists researching issues related to the SDI such as nuclear winter. Several of the tactics used by the Tobacco industry were present in the nuclear winter issue, such as, the use of dubious authorities, the creation of committees dedicated to the spread of misinformation,
Although it remains a large portion of the U.S’ economy, tobacco smoking can lead to a variety of diseases and disorders that affect the user. The effects of smoking tobacco not only affect the user but surrounding people as well: permanently destroying their lungs and children, increasing the chances of diseases and of cancer.
With more people dying from tobacco related illnesses than any other source, smoking and tobacco use is the single largest source of preventable deaths in the world. There have been many attempts at controlling smoking in America which not only harms the user but also the people around them. None of the attempts have succeeded fully so far. This essay will show why by providing evidence and history about smoking and tobacco use and analyzing current actions or rather inactions addressing this problem; this essay will explain the nature of this tobacco epidemic, and examining the steps needed to further resolve this problem.
Tobacco has been around for centuries and consumed by people everywhere around the world. The products tobacco companies produce contain harmful chemicals and drugs to make the user stay hooked for as long as possible. Till death do us part, am I right? These companies use the ignorance of under developed countries to leech off of their wallets and create sickness without an explanation. Tobacco should not be able to advertise its products in a positive light.
Tobacco; one of the most profitable products in history, an addictive substance, and a deadly killer. Smoking tobacco used to be a thing that was endorsed in American society. Now, with the new medical advances and knowledge, society has seen the side effects of smoking and how fatal it actually is. Teenagers have been one of the largest age groups that have been affected by smoking. After analyzing all possible reasons as to why teenagers would smoke while knowing it can affect their health, three possible reasons stuck out the most. Teenagers smoke despite knowing the health problems that originate from smoking because of peer pressure, an “invincibility” mentality, and seeing a role model or family member smoke.
For a country in our financial position the general health of Scotland is very poor. In some areas the average life expectancy is as low as 54 years old for men. A major cause of this is smoking. With the young in particular smoking is much more popular than it used to be. In October 2008, it was estimated that one third of 16-24 year olds smoke. This figure is at a 10 year high. In between the ages of 16-19 it is found that girls are more likely to smoke than boys.
More than 480,000 people smoke every day and over 16 million people suffer from smoking related illnesses. For every dead smoker, at least thirty people live with a smoking related illness. Worldwide, tobacco use causes nearly six million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than eight million deaths annually by the year 2030. On average, smokers dies ten years earlier than nonsmokers and if smoking continue at the current rate among U.S. youth, 5.6 million of today’s Americans younger than 18 years of age are expected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. This represents about one in every thirteen Americans aged 17 years or younger who are alive today.
Smoking has become very common and fashionable, especially among young boys. This habit usually begins at school when boys try to experiment with every new thing that they can lay their hands on.
Cigarettes are one of the most common habits that people do nowadays but in recent years has slowly been decreasing In the US. “There are approximately one billion smokers in the world today” (Saha, Sibu). It is at the same time one of the main causes for lung cancer. Many if not everyone that smokes know that it can be harmful to you and your body. It can be a very dangerous habit to take up but at the same time the person smoking is not the only one that is in danger. “It is estimated that approximately 1.1 billion people smoke worldwide. From these numbers 900 million are from men and the other 200 million are women” (Saha, Sibu). Everyday people smoke cigarettes around their friends, family and children and it causes more harm than they know it. Smoking can not only cause you cancer but can also give cancer to the ones around you.