Smoking cessation

Smoking cessation was my semester’s goal but after a few days I realized that goal needed modification into a reachable goal with a specific outline. Decreasing the amount, I smoke with the eventual outcome of changing my lifestyle by creating my own smoking cessation program was this semester’s goal in Psychological Aspects of Kinesiology. Initially, I wanted to stop completely smoking and found that was extremely difficult for me to accomplish. I have smoked for more than 10 years which makes me ashamed to admit. At the peak of success with this goal I had not smoked for about a week and throughout the course of this class I broke my rule of buying a pack of cigarettes once. Currently, my smoking average per day adds up to one or two…

Smoking and smoking cessation rates differ from country to another in terms of economic and social differences, and the objectives were to completion of treatment to support quit attempts and success in quitting smoking. Smokers is a major determinant of health inequalities and the smokers should make a lot of effort to quit smoking, deprived smokers should be supported first because they are more vulnerable and more likely to smoke. Rates of success in quitting can be enhanced considerably…

Smoking cessation has proven to be effective with interventions in social and stressful situations. However, there are not many studies that exhibit these positive results. By implementing the social cognitive theory, researchers were able to study behavioral patterns in adolescents who stopped smoking through these interventions. The results showed that the main variables that ranked the highest with smoking cessation was knowledge of the importance, commitment, social standards, and confidence…

Smoking Cessation strategies and dentist’s interventions: Advising patients to quit tobacco use is a dental professional responsibility, and the dentists may take an active role in nicotine replacement counseling (Sham, 2003). Smoking cessation should be incorporated as an integral teaching component of the undergraduate dental curriculum, particularly with respect to the prevention and diagnosis of tobacco-induced oral lesions and complications Sham (2003). Patients who smoke should be…

Smoking Cessation Tobacco smoking contributes to cardiovascular disease, cancer, and lung disease and is a “leading preventable cause of death” (Fritz, Wider, Hardin, & Horrocks, 2008b; Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014; Stephenson & Allen, 2007; Tingen et al., 2006). There are 440,000 deaths alone from tobacco use in the United States (Stephenson & Allen, 2007; Tingen et al., 2006). Smoking cessation programs are great ways nurses can encourage patients with hypertension to go. Studies show that to…

The Pakistani and Bangladeshi smokers are high in the United Kingdom (UK) and there are minimum amount of smoking cessation programs designed to address the concern. Consequently, a pilot program trial of an intervention designed to offer a culturally tailored, trained community smoking cessation worker model of care was enacted to test the impact of a smoking cessation program for the Pakistani and Bangladeshi men. The cluster randomized controlled trial pilot study was set to compare the…

Introduction Smoking cessation refers to the process of discontinuing smoking of tobacco. Though Smoking cessation normally seems to be a very simple process, in real sense it is one of the most challenging processes bearing in mind that tobacco contains a high level of nicotine and is very addictive hence making the process of quitting not only difficult but also prolonged. Though many people have tried to abandon smoking completely, it is disturbing to note that it is only a few who have…

Smoking Cessation Smoking is one of the most preventable causes of death and disease in the United States. Ratchford and Evans states, “On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than non-smokers, and smoking causes almost one in every five deaths in the United States” (2016). Smoking can cause many risk factors that predisposes smokers to serious health conditions. According to Mospan (2016) some of the major risk factors for smoking are cardiovascular disease, lung disorders, cancer and…

Unassisted Cessation While participating in various individualized smoking cessation programs are strongly encouraged, according to Els, Kunyk, Selby, & Canadian Electronic Library (2014), about ¾ of smokers have quit on their own by either gradually limiting their smokes or going cold turkey. They noted that while this has a high rate of success due to its reach, critics see this as a reflection of having poor access to smoking cessation programs. Els et al. (2014) identified two factors that…

Smoking Cessation The student government committee of Evergreen Technical College would like to recommend that our school offer a smoking cessation program or provide direction to sources of smoking cessation programs that are currently available. The subject of smoking cessation programs arose during recent discussions at the student government planning sessions, due to the no smoking policy on the Evergreen Technical College campus. We believe it would be of great benefit to the school to…