Smoking: Consequences, Prevention and Health Promotion Strategies

SMOKING

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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