Effectiveness of Health and Education Intervention for Smoking Prevention in Adults of UK

Research methods and
critical appraisal

Table of Contents
Topic: Smoking................................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Chapter 1: Background and rationale..............................................................................................1
Chapter 2: Methodology..................................................................................................................3
PICO Question........................................................................................................................4
Chapter 3: Results............................................................................................................................5
Chapter 4: Critical appraisal............................................................................................................5
Chapter 5: Emerging themes............................................................................................................5
Chapter 6: Recommendation and conclusion..................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Topic: Smoking
Title of the research - “To effectively assess and evaluate about the success and
effectiveness level of the health and education intervention which are tend to working for
the prevention and stopping of the Smoking in the Adults of UK”.
Introduction
The current assignment is based on the aim of the reviewing the effectiveness of the
health promotion intervention for which the selected public health topic is Smoking. Further, the
concept of Smoking is defined as inhaling the smoke of any substance through the use of
smoking apparatus including, but not limited to, cigars, cigarettes, or pipes (Lippi and Henry,
2020). This project is a narrative literature review about smoking. The selection of smoking as
the selected public health topic is effective and vital as smoking is quite commonly seen within
UK and it tend to have many bas effects on the health of public. It has been seen and analysed
that the cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive are some of
the most common form of the pulmonary disease (COPD) which are tend to be caused by the
Smoking (Warner and Mendez, 2019). Beside this, the negative impact of the Smoking also
tends to includes and comprises of the emphysema as well as chronic bronchitis and also tend to
enhanced the risk of the issue for tuberculosis along with certain eye diseases, as well as the
problems of the immune system loss that also includes rheumatoid arthritis. Further, the structure
of the current project is being divided into 6 main chapters out of which chapter 1 comprises of
the background and rationale for the project. Further, the 2nd chapter comprises of the discussion
about the research methodology while the while the 3 chapter tend to includes the information
about the results and analysis of the selected article. Finally, the 5th choate comprise of the
emerging themes while the last chapter 6th includes of the recommendation and conclusion.
Chapter 1: Background and rationale
It has been seen and analysed that use of the smoking is highly increasing within the
society of UK and it tend to crate and lead to the risk of the developing of the higher heart
disease as well as the risk of stroke of is also greater. Thus, selection of current research topic is
vital and significant as it supports implication of better health creation and prevention of many
diseases associated and caused by the smoking. The data has shown and reflected that the more
than 14% of the adults in England are addict to smoking which tend to also account for the more
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than 7 million adults who are cigarette smokers in UK (Uçar and et. al., 2019). Thus, an analysis
can be made that Smoking has become a common issue within the society of UK.
(Smoking ration in UK, 2020)
(Source: Smoking in UK, 2020)
In the UK, in 2019, 14.1% of people aged 18 years and above smoked cigarettes, which equates
to around 6.9 million people in the population, based on our estimate from the Annual
Population Survey (APS). The proportion of current smokers in the UK has fallen significantly
from 14.7% in 2018 to 14.1% in 2019. Of the constituent countries, 13.9% of adults in England
smoked, 15.5% of adults in Wales, 15.4% of adults in Scotland and 15.6% of adults in Northern
Ireland.
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