Report on a Smoking Intervention Program for Young Adults in the UK

This report provides a detailed overview of a smoking intervention program designed to improve the health and wellbeing of young adults in the UK. It begins with an introduction defining intervention and its role in promoting behavioral changes. The background section highlights the significant smoking rates in the UK. The assessment phase is explained, emphasizing the process of identifying needs and the importance of interview questions to understand the smokers' physical, mental, and social aspects. The rationale for the intervention is presented, emphasizing the program's role in mitigating the health impacts of smoking and suggesting tips for quitting. The overall intervention outline details a six-month program involving volunteers, doctors, and councillors. The intervention includes rehab, pharmaceutical, and care services. Councillors provide support for quitting, while doctors and pharmacists offer medical services, and volunteers provide social and financial support. The report concludes by summarizing the importance of the smoking intervention for the UK population and the various services offered for health promotion. The report references relevant studies and government reports on smoking and public health.

HEALTH
PROMOTION

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Background
Rationale of smoking
intervention
Assessment
Outline of Overall Intervention
Conclusion
References

INTRODUCTION
 Intervention can be defined as the combination of program strategies or elements that
organized to create behavioural changes or increase health status among entire population.
 In intervention comprises health promotional campaigns, educational programs or
improvement in environment. Intervention is the act of involvement, interfering with the
intent of adapting.
 In this presentation will discuss about smoking intervention program in respect improving
health wellbeing of targeted audience i.e. young adults.

Background
Smoking has become one of the major discussion points across the world
specially in UK because more than 14.1% population means around 6.9
million people are current smoker in UK which is quite wide ratio (Turning
the tide on tobacco: Smoking in England hits a new low. 2018).

Assessment
 It is a systematic a process of identifying and addressing needs or gaps between desired
condition and current condition. It is a essential part of planning processes that often
use for improvement in individuals with smoking.
 Assessment session is essential for the intervention to understand physical, mental and
social aspects of people who do smoking regular basis. With the support of assessment
session I can offer such services to the people which helps them quit this bad habit and
makes their life healthy.
Questions for the interview session:
 Are you suffering from any type of risk factors i.e. cancers, strokes, heart attacks or
mouth and larynx cancer?
 Are you feel anxiety and depression due to long term stress?
 Has cigarette disturbs your social life?

Rationale of smoking intervention
 Smoking intervention is health promotion program that is going play significant
role in improving individual’s health. In this intervention program highlights health
impacts cause by smoking and provides brief information about negative impact on
environment as well.
 With this smoking intervention, individuals who are in the habbit of smoking can
quit smoking and can improve their health wellbeing. This intervention program is
designed to suggest some tips or ideas to quit smoking habits.
 This intervention will definitely support decline highest percentage rate of smoking
in adults and stays youth generation healthy.

Outline of Overall Intervention
In this intervention will involve volunteers and doctors who will support such people to make
schedule of physical activity and eating habits. Thus, individuals can follow this schedule and
keep themselves healthy.
This intervention is conducted for the 6 months and in this period provides rehab, pharmaceutical
and care services to the people for quitting smoking habits.
Within 6 months, councillor, volunteers and doctors will work together in order to treat patient
with smoking.

Cont..
 Councillors will help those people who really wants to
quit this habbit but they unable to do it.
 In this state, councillor support people to apply
several habits like avoid to meet such people or
company who smokes, do exercise regular basis, have
healthy food etc. which distracts their mind towards
smoking (Anyanwu and et.al., 2018.).
 While doctors and pharmacists will offer
pharmaceutical and care services to those people who
are suffering from health issues caused by smoking.
 Volunteers will provide social support like financial
support, food facility etc. to people with smoking till
6 months.

CONCLUSION
 In this presentation has been summarized about importance of smoking intervention
for UK’s population.
 In last it has been concluded different services that offered in the intervention to the
people in respect of health promotion.

REFERENCES
Forman, J and et.al., 2017. National survey of smoking and smoking cessation
education within UK midwifery school curricula. Nicotine & Tobacco
Research. 19(5). pp.591-596.
Anyanwu, P.E and et.al., 2018. Impacts of smoke-free public places legislation on
inequalities in youth smoking uptake: study protocol for a secondary analysis of
UK survey data. BMJ open. 8(3). p.e022490..
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Turning the tide on tobacco: Smoking in England hits a new low. 2018. [Online].
Available through:- < https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2018/07/03/turning-
the-tide-on-tobacco-smoking-in-england-hits-a-new-low/ >