Health Prevention Program : Smoking Cessation

HEALTH PREVENTION PROGRAM
This study showed that smoking cessation app content could be defined with
moderate to high reliability to include BCTs related to higher survival rates in
face-to-face cessation of smoking behavioral support. The study also showed that
high reliability could be identified with engagement and user-friendly features
(Birken et al. 2017). A patient-centered method increases the incentive of a
person to improve through self-examination and ambivalence-to-change
recognition and eventual solution contributing to continued significant change in
behavior (Campbell et al. 2018). The review concluded that cessation of
smoking applications might not promote autonomous motivation enough, and
only a limited number of applications addressed all three basic needs. The study
revealed that applications for Android smoking cessation were not smart, and the
apps lack tailor-made input.
Introduction Results
Smoking cessation intervention will be implemented by the help of the various
healthcare professionals and the counselors. This will include the involvement of
the older adults who are 65 years and above and are suffering from COPD. The
intervention will include the involvement of 100 adults and are divided into two
groups for receiving smart phone applications and VBA . After first 3 months
there will be a gap of 6 months and the same two groups will go for the other
intervention not received by them in the first 3 months.
Methodology Conclusion
References
Tobacco smoke is the world's leading cause of premature preventable death.
While most smokers want to quit, smoking's repetitive and addictive nature
makes it difficult to stop. Clinical recommendations recommend that
cessation of smoking should include both therapeutic and pharmacotherapy
help. As the number of cigarettes smoked increases, life expectancy and
health-related quality of life indices have been shown to decrease in a dose-
dependent manner. (Atkins et al. 2017; Bartlett, Sheeran and Hawley 2014)
Tobacco smoking is a learned behavior that results in the majority of
smokers being physically addicted to nicotine. Thus, this intervention
program includes VBA (very brief advice) sessions or groups along with
smart phone applications that will help the smokers to quit smoking and
will eventually result in higher percentage of individuals who have quit
smoking. (Atkins et al. 2016)
VBA was found to be effective as it was able to motivate a number of smokers
to quit smoking. This form of advice acts primarily by triggering the attempt for
cessation. This method is based on the application of 5As that encourages the
individuals to ask, then assess, after which there is advise from the
professionals, assistance in the form of pharmacotherapy and then assistance in
the form of follow-up meetings. This helps the smokers to go through a series of
steps that compels the individual to quit smoking.
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