Smoking In South Dakota

Smoking effects every organ in your body, examples have been found in the onset of Alzheimer, Pre-aging, Lung Cancer, and heart disease such as diabetes, and heart attacks. Almost all of these diseases contribute to the leading mortality and morbidity rates in the World today. The effected group is everyone that is surrounded by someone or persons that smoke, or any tax payer. This statement will be addressing South Dakota, Minnehaha county young adults ages twelve to eighteen. Smoking effects the state of South Dakota and the world, by 1964 it was evident that cigarette smoking was a contributory cause to lung cancer and other morbidity and mortality rates. (General S.), Which in return produced the first General Report on Smoking and Health. …show more content…
(Riegelman 86), There are four major steps in this model, let’s review what they mean. Prognosticate would be the process of learning the knowledge and readiness on getting ready for this change. Motivate change would be direct impacts on the individual if they would stop smoking, examples would be since of smell returning after two weeks, and after 2 months the chance of heart attack drops by fifty percent. Plan change is setting specific goals such as an end date, stimulus are very effective and may maximize effectiveness. Remove any habitual nature such as ash trays, cigarettes. Reinforce is rewarding good behavior would be adding more stimuluses to help prevent the fall back onto smoking again. In this step you need to focus on measurable progress toward new behavior. The individual must learn to walk before they can start to run, without falling back to their old habits. Maintenance is the final step in the Stages of Change. Practice than reinforce you must realize that this problem will never be solved but it is ongoing for the rest of the individual life. But with the proper help and prevention, the county of Minnehaha can greatly reduce the young adult smoking average back down to