People smoking tobacco is one of the major health issues that causes several non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and smoking attributable cancers. Social norms influence people to smoke tobacco as teens, and are likely to continue smoking in adulthood. Once people start smoking, the nicotine in tobacco addicts them that they have a hard time quitting. With nicotine addicting smokers and people’s low self-efficacy, the chances of people attempting to quit smoking are slim. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 18.8% of males and 14.8% of females who are 18 years of age or older (40 million people) in the United States initially smoked tobacco in 2014 and are current smokers, in addition to an estimated
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The transtheoretical model has five stages, but the program focused on people who were in the pre-contemplation, contemplation, and preparation stages. The community was surveyed to determine who smokes and people’s decisions to stop smoking, which the data of the conducted survey was organized to determine what stages people were in. People in the pre-contemplation have no idea of tobacco’s detrimental health effects, so they had no desire to quit. Pre-contemplation and contemplation stages are people who have an idea of tobacco’s detrimental health effects or have made plans to when they want quit smoking. The program then asked the people who were surveyed to join, then implemented education to the participants on tobacco, self-monitoring behavior, and had social support gatherings so people can discuss their progress. The education portion explained the tobacco’s detrimental health effects, in addition to educating people’s smoking behaviors and monitoring them, so they can take action and prevent others from smoking. The social gatherings allowed people to explain each other’s methods to give up smoking and raising people’s self-efficacy by motivating each other, which was monitored by the program. The program’s communication to the participants moved people to the next stages of the transtheoretical model, so it decreased the amount of people who smoked and provided positive influences to stop smoking. Participants within the program who are also parents were able to decrease the amount of teens who smoke due to the education they had on knowing people’s smoking
The transtheoretical model has five stages, but the program focused on people who were in the pre-contemplation, contemplation, and preparation stages. The community was surveyed to determine who smokes and people’s decisions to stop smoking, which the data of the conducted survey was organized to determine what stages people were in. People in the pre-contemplation have no idea of tobacco’s detrimental health effects, so they had no desire to quit. Pre-contemplation and contemplation stages are people who have an idea of tobacco’s detrimental health effects or have made plans to when they want quit smoking. The program then asked the people who were surveyed to join, then implemented education to the participants on tobacco, self-monitoring behavior, and had social support gatherings so people can discuss their progress. The education portion explained the tobacco’s detrimental health effects, in addition to educating people’s smoking behaviors and monitoring them, so they can take action and prevent others from smoking. The social gatherings allowed people to explain each other’s methods to give up smoking and raising people’s self-efficacy by motivating each other, which was monitored by the program. The program’s communication to the participants moved people to the next stages of the transtheoretical model, so it decreased the amount of people who smoked and provided positive influences to stop smoking. Participants within the program who are also parents were able to decrease the amount of teens who smoke due to the education they had on knowing people’s smoking