Smoking: Consequences, Prevention and Health Promotion Strategies

This article discusses the consequences of smoking, including chronic illnesses and leading causes of death. It also covers prevention strategies and health promotion techniques, including developing personal skills, building healthy public policy, and reorienting health services. The article cites various studies and guidelines to support its claims.

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Table of Contents
CLINICAL CASE SCENARIO.......................................................................................................1
Action area: Develop personal skills......................................................................................1
Action area: Build healthy public policy................................................................................2
Action area: Reorient Health Services...................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

CLINICAL CASE SCENARIO
Smoking is defined as the practice in which the substance is used. It may create the aspect
of smoking that is breathed in to be tasted and absorbed by the bloodstream. In this, the most
commonly used smoking substance is obtained from the dried leaves of the tobacco plant. They
are shaped like a small rectangular of rolling paper, which helps to create a small, round cylinder
called a cigarette. However, smoking usually acts as an addictive substance, whereas it contains
nicotine, which comes under the category of drug, which mechanism of addiction. The nicotine
makes various difficulties among the population with the upbringing of cancer and other cancer
which may be harmful to the people who used to do regular smoking.
Moreover, the chronic or overuse of smoking substances may cause leading causes of death
(Al Hinai and et al., 2020). As per this, the end from smoking is predicated and recording 484000
which occurs due to the chronic condition people suffer from illness formulated smoking. The
reason which represents some factor of death is that it enhances the risk of getting lung cancer,
mouth cancer, and heart attack. Moreover, these are the primary factor which is associated with
smoking. In contrast, chronic lung disease, stroke, and many other cancers are associated and,
after a time, wholly preventable and lead to death. Overall, smoking is the most preventable
cause of death in the current period. They are smoking perhaps the most preventable cause of
disease, which is majorly associated with respiratory disease (Graham and et al., 2019).
Action area: Develop personal skills
In this, the development of personal skill and social support is using the data and information
which help to provide information regarding the consequence of smoking among people. There
are several populations uses to educate about the life skill and how they can deal with the issue
of health. Smoking is usually creating complications for the user, and if they know the upcoming
consequence regarding their health decision, they can adequately control their lives. As per this,
they educate people and formulating awareness among the people government also took steps by
initiating a campaign from the last decade. Moreover, the national tobacco campaign is one of
the health longest-running public health campaigns. This campaign was usually launched in June
1997 to control and prevent the overuse of smoking and educate several people about tobacco, a
global health issue and a significant cause of death in Australia. Moreover, it helps to reduce the
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smoking rate in Australia. It plays a crucial role in minimizing smoking by reducing the rate by
3.7 percent (Gregorio Jr and et al., 2021).
They used to understand the basic theme of any campaign, and they used to develop
personal skills regards to quitting smoking. It is challenging for the smoker to quit smoking with
the help of anyone because they have an extreme level of addiction based on smoking. Nicotine
is the main element of tobacco that can create chronic illnesses in people. Moreover, advising
and providing healthy behavior is the foremost approach essential for individuals who used to do
smoking on regular smoking, to develop healthy behavior changing and appreciating
psychological and physiological and social support with communities and various groups. There
are multiple strategies available to treat tobacco to prevent the leading causes of death due to
cancer as a cause of smoking. It can include nonpharmacological, behavioral counseling, and
various pharmacological therapies. This including nicotine and replacement theory and
varenicline (Haddad and et al., 2017).
Still, due to the habit of regular smoking, they do not reduce their smoking habit. To
develop the quality of life and improve their behavior for a healthy life, they must follow some
online trends, which is helpful to reduce the factor of smoking which may lead cause for death.
Moreover, a website that quits smoking provides an additional element for the people who want
to quit smoking. However, various programs are run online with a team of healthcare
professionals and medical staff, including pharmacists and nursing. So on, they present their
view to quitting smoking.
Moreover, the national tackling indigenous smoking program aims to reduce and prevent
tobacco, which is the main factor of chronic disease risk, including cancer, lung cancer, and
many more. With this, it has been incorporating that there are five action areas associated with
health promotion. It helps to build healthy public policy, create a supportive environment for
health, and strengthen the community for health. ThesMoreover, access to healthcare
professional advice and taking the free online health consultations help empower which help to
reduce the habit of smoking.
Action area: Build healthy public policy
To minimize, it is essential to implement some of the legislation, policies, and fiscal measure in
which government and public policies are work together to create equity among the individual
and across the various population. In this, some of the steps are being taken to reduce the
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promotion of such a product that is harmful to the people. In this, the Tobacco advertising
prohibition act banned any advertising related to the substance-related to smoking and tobacco in
Australia. It may help encourage to quit and stop smoking or tobacco product use through this
step. Moreover, several states and governments also have some laws that allow restricting
tobacco sponsorship.
Moreover, there are various billboard and heading are used in such a way which also promote the
use of smoking and tobacco. With this, the point of sale advertising and the retail display of the
product is prohibited through this law. The promotional activities are banned, so the sales are
decreased, and people do not know about this. Moreover, this law is helpful to reduce the
promotion that shows equilibrium with sales and use. The advertisement may cause enhance the
ability to produce a deal, and people get aware of the smoking product, but this law is used to
develop a factor that declines the user.
As per this, the pharmaceutical benefits scheme is an example that shows that the
commonwealth government usually addresses the social justice principle of equity. In this, the
government's primary factor So, they used to provide subsidies in the price or the cost of
medication to assist those people who are facing the issue of low income and socioeconomic
background such a way which help to create the equal access for everyone (Halpern and et al.,
2018).
With this, the national partnership agreement on closing the gap based on the health
outcome identifies with the following priority component of the national-level program to reduce
the leading cause of smoking, which renders people's lives. As per this, while taking the aspect of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it is essential to prevent the use of smoking and also
focus on the health outcome.
Social marketing activities are also helpful to reduce smoking which is associated with the
people. In this, the strategies show a positive aspect based on the improvement of delivery of
smoking cessation service, which usually includes NRT. The Australian government, which is
taking as a state and territory government, has the mainstream service that allows users to enable
a healthy diet and regulate instruction for the development of quality of health. As per this,
encourage the people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who can get subsidized
nicotine replacement therapy. It helps to play a vital role in developing the quality of health and
quality of life for those who are previously dealing with smoking. Now they focus on their
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health, and this all is covered due to laws and policies implemented by government while taking
the aspect of people (Kryzanowski et al., 2019).
In this, the central aspect associated with this action area is to formulate and promote
smoke-free legislation, which is the significant responsibility of states and territories. In
Australia, there is a factor that establishes a good habit that the people do not use to smoke in the
public areas or region. However, restaurants, office buildings, shopping malls, schools, and
cinemas are also coming under the prevalence of legislation that shows the positive impact, and
significant public places are smoke-free.
Action area: Reorient Health Services
The reorienting health service is defined as the primary about the health sector, which
concentrates on the clinical and curative service to increase with the focus on health promotion
and prevention. It acts as an open channel between the health sector and broader elements,
including social, political, economic, and physical environmental components. As per this, the
action area is usually about the detailing of reorienting health services, which notably include
and expand the major role of promoting health based on smoking and their prevention.
Moreover, with this all concept, the Ottawa Charter states that the health service needs to
embrace an extended mandate based on the aspect of prospect, which is sensitive and respectful
cultural need. It all part shows the factor of support which require the need of individual and
communities for a healthier life. With the contrast of increasing smoking cases, they require
some social approval and districts that educate people for their health and provide ways to quit
such type of behavior, which raise the issue of chronic disease and lead to cause of death (Lake
and et al., 2019).
The Royal Australian College of general practitioner usually provides some guidelines
based on clinical for the health professional, and their role is helpful to support the cessation of
smoking. Generally, the health professional focuses on helping to prevent illness and disease and
promoting health through the preventive measure. The Royal Australian College of general
practitioner has provided guidelines that elaborate that healthcare professionals play a key role in
educating. It helps motivate smokers, provide them dependence on the nicotine, and give a better
and helpful approach to quitting smoking (Thompson and et al., 2018).
Overall, the three action areas include developing personal skills, building healthy policy,
and reorienting health services. These three have different patterns and approaches that help
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quantify and show the measurement of prevention towards smoking. In this, the development of
skill-based knowledge is helpful to develop self-manner behavior, which allows the user to quit
smoking and focus on growth. Moreover, the health policy has also improved the quality of life
and provides support to others by taking a step towards making cessation. In this, the reoriented
health service has the same primary focus: developing a smoking-free area that reduces the
causes of cancer and then death.
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Gregorio Jr and et. al., 2021. Health promotion, health education, and risk communication for
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Haddad and et. al., 2017. Effectiveness of a culturally-tailored smoking cessation intervention for
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