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400418- Health Advancement And Health Promotion

   

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1Running head:HEALTH ADVANCEMENT AND HEALTH PROMOTIONHealth advancement and health promotionName of student:Name of university:Author note:

HEALTH ADVANCEMENT AND HEALTH PROMOTIONSearch strategy The present systematic research aimed at highlighting health promotion strategy,particularly Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) as an effective intervention for smokingcessation. The databases used for this purpose were PubMed, CINAHL and Science Direct.The keywords used for the search were Nicotine Replacement Therapy, NRT, smokingcessation, tobacco, quit, prevent, cessation. The Boolean operations used were AND and OR,with the purpose of making the research more narrowed and productive by eliminating theinappropriate hits. Inclusion/ exclusion of paper A reliable and effective search is fruitful for the researched if the selection of thepapers to be included in the systematic review is done meticulously. Rejection of researchpapers and successive inclusion of them needs to be thoroughly guided by a proper andjustified research criteria established before commencing on the research. Exhaustiveassessment process restates the appropriate requirement of vigorous inclusion criteria (Flick2015). In the present case, articles that have been published in the last five years, that is on orafter the year 2012 were considered. The primary criteria for selecting the papers was thatfull-text articles were to be included in the study. Databases were searched, and 29 articleswere included for the first round of screening. After assessing the title of the papers, theabstract was read in order to understand their alignment with the research objective. 15articles made into the second round of screening. The full-text articles were thereby read, andtheir credibility was therefore judged. Six articles were finally selected for the resent review.These articles were available in English language and were successful addressing the researchquestion.

HEALTH ADVANCEMENT AND HEALTH PROMOTIONEvidence on topicAccording to Coleman et al., (2012) there lies a common viewpoint that nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) can be effective in helping women to quit smoking at the time ofpregnancy. The researchers carried out a double-blinded, randomised, placebo-controlled,parallel-group trial for assessing the safety as well as efficacy of a standard dose of nicotine-replacement patches in abstinence from the habit of smoking. From the research, it wasindicated that the addition of a nicotine patch, about 15 mg per 16 hours, to behaviouralcessation for supporting women who smoke at the time of pregnancy does not significantlybring an increase in the rate of abstinence from smoking. The supplementation when assessedwas found to be not better than placebo in the promotion of sustained abstinence throughoutpregnancy. In addition, there was no prominent evidence that such therapy had a harmful or abeneficial impact on the birth outcomes. It is to be however noted that the inability to attain anoteworthy longer-term impact of the applied nicotine-replacement therapy is to be rightfullyjustified by the low adherence rates of the study participants. Tonnesen (2013) discussed the usefulness of NRT as a smoking cessation practice. Asper the authors, the foundation of smoking cessation can be attributed to counselling alongwith NRT, or bupropion SR and vareniciline. Combination of two NRTs and varenciline iseffective on an equal basis. Lower levels of nicotine use can be attained with NRT incompared with smoking. Abdullah et al., (2013) highlighted that two week free NRT is not more effectualwhen compared to 1-week free NRT for helping smokers quitting smoking at 12 months andat times six months. From a single-blinded randomized controlled study undertaken by theresearchers, it was found that there was no statistically significant difference in the smoking

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