NURS2000 Behavioural Responses To Chronic Illness
Questions:
1. What are the common symptoms associated with an exacerbation of COPD?
2. What assessment techniques will you use to assess Mary?
3. Identify smoking strategies that would be appropriate for each of the encounters that Mary had with the nurse throughout the video that could have been used to assist Mary in quitting smoking.
4. Find a resource in your community that could assist Mary. What services are available to Mary? Briefly describe the services that the state quit line provides. Does it meet the 4 As? Is it accessible, acceptable, affordable, or available for Mary?
5. What will you do to follow-up on Mary’s smoking cessation process?
Answers:
Why it is important to change the behavior
Various diseases come about due to the habit of smoking tobacco. Some of the wide-ranging lung diseases that accrue from smoking include emphysema, lung cancer, and asthma. Smokers are normally 12 times more likely to die from COPD than people who do not smoke. COPD is short for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. People that smoke get into the habit of accompanying them with cigarettes and lighters, which can be an untidy habit that might not be pleasing to other people. Smoke from tobacco is not only harmful to the heart and lungs, but it also affects nearly all the major organs in the body. Smokers have a higher susceptibility to heart attacks and heart failures than non-smokers do.
Smoking of Tobacco is one of the leading causes of drug addiction and deaths the world over. Smoking of cigarettes is not only harmful to us when we smoke but also to the people around us (Jarvis, 2015). The people who smoke are called primary consumers whereas as the people that inhales smoke from the smokers are the secondary smokers. The World Health Organization puts the use of Tobacco at the second leading killer addictive drug in the world. On the other hand, smoking remains the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States (Mecklenburg, 2014). Of all the cigarettes that are smoked 40% are known to lead to the formation of various types of cancer from the throat all the way down to the voice box.
In the long term, smoking has negative effects on the life of the unborn child. Diabetes, colon cancer, cervix cancer, and even stomach cancer are but some of the other diseases that are highly associated with the smoking of tobacco (Jarvis, 2015). Quitting or reducing smoking will improve the breath of the smoke; it will whiten the teeth of the smoker and will make the smoker less high and more attentive in activities like class work. Reducing smoking improves the oral health of the smoker, and reduces the chances of acquiring skin wrinkles. Quitting smoking also improves the smoker’s self-esteem and improves the chances of them looking younger in the end (Mecklenburg, 2014). It is, therefore, essential that my friend stops smoking because it does more harm than good to the body. The application of the theory in helping to solve the problem will be applied by use of the following constructs:
The theory is based on the understanding that the person is bound to take certain actions based on the way they think it will benefit them. For instance, the person will resort to using condoms when they feel that it will help them avoid certain negative attributes like STD. Other times people will react according to the positive effects that they think the action will have on them.
Figure 1 Conceptual model for the expected reactions
The Health Belie model has been applied to a wide range of subjects including Tobacco use, and it has had tremendous success. The concept has been used for promoting healthy habits, shunning unhealthy habits and keeping the general population healthy.
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Concept |
Tobacco Smoking awareness |
Tobacco Prevention efforts |
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Young people believe that too much tobacco causes addiction and ultimately death |
Young people believe that they may have been exposed to diseases that come with cigarette smoking inhalation of tobacco |
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Young people believe that the consequences of tobacco smoking are enough to make one want to quit smoking |
Young people believe that the consequences of having tobacco-related illnesses without treatment are significant enough to want to quit the habit. |
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Young people believe that shunning from smoking tobacco will shield them from the tobacco-related illnesses like lung cancer. |
Young people believe that ceasing to smoke will help them prevent secondary and primary infection of tobacco-related infections |
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Youth identify some of the barriers as being the feeling of being left out of their peer groups or looking too soft for hard stuff like tobacco |
Young people identify the yearning to fit into their peer groups as the number one barrier to self-regulation of taking tobacco. |
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Young people receive incentives and reminders in the form of awareness messages of the effects of tobacco smoke on the body |
Youths receive reminders and incentives in the form of awareness messages of the effects of tobacco smoke on the body |
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Confidence in ceasing to smoke at every urge |
Ability to control one’s urges |
References
Jarvis, C. (2015). Physical Examination and Health Assessment (Vol. 3). South Carolina: Elsevier,.
Mecklenburg, R. E. (2014). Tobacco Effects In The Mouth. New York : DIANE Publishing.
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