Cytogenetics and cancer research blog is ready to help smoker to quit from smoking. Smoking cessation is a tough mission to be gone through. However, there are many benefits of stopping smoking for long term health benefits, including reduced cumulative risk for cancer, especially for lung cancer. So, we need the smoking cessation intervention to quit smoking effectively to reduce the risk of smoking-related disease.
Initially, we need to recognize the complexity of tobacco use which included the nicotine addiction with the interplay of social, psychological and biological factors. These factors should be paid attention during smoking cessation. Health care providers play the important role to assist the smokers to quit from smoking by providing both quitting aids and advices on health-related issues.
During the time I was finding the information about how to quit smoking effectively and doing the cancer research, I found Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence which was provided by the US Public Health Service to assist health care providers when delivering the cessation treatment. This should be a good guideline for the smokers to quit from smoking too. The guideline is produced based on a systematic research and analysis of scientific literature to assist health care providers in delivering smoking cessation treatment.
5 A’s for Smoking Cessation Intervention
1. Ask about tobacco use
For a health care provider, you may ask and record the tobacco use status for the patient at every visit.
For the smoker, you must record the frequency of tobacco use daily.
2. Advise to quit
For a health care provider, you may encourage the patient to quit in a clear, strong and determined manner.
For the smoker, you have to motivate yourself to quit from smoking strongly. What can you do? You may keep on reminding yourself about the disadvantages of smoking. And also, you may visit Cytogenetics and Cancer Research blog regularly to get some motivation here.:)
3. Assess readiness to quit
For a health care provider, you may find out whether the patient is ready in the next 30 days.
For the smoker, just prepare yourself to quit from smoking including the psychological and physical preparation.
4. Assist with quitting
For a health care provider, you may provide the counselling or pharmacotherapy to assist the patient quit smoking effectively.
For the smoker, try to ask for the health care provider’s help to enhance the effectiveness of smoking cessation. The support of family members is always the main inspiration and energy source for the smoker to successfully quitting smoking.
5. Arrange follow up
For a health care provider, you must make an appointment with the patient to follow up the smoking cessation status. Preferably, the health care provider may set up a schedule to follow up with the patient start from the first week of quitting.
For the smoker, you may jot down the date you start quitting. You may motivate yourself by counting the number of the day you live without the tobacco. You will start to feel impress with your determination to quit from smoking then. And this is the time I wish to say congratulation to you! You are awesome!
In conclusion, smoking cessation intervention has successfully helped many of smokers who wish to quit from smoking. By looking on the evidence of adverse impact of smoking which harms nearly every organ in our body, it is the time to encourage yourself and your beloved to stop smoking.
(Reference: David S. Albert, Lisa M. Hess. Fundamental of Cancer Prevention, Second edition)
haha, part time blogger also not bad Kok Siong! And the article also good for the smoker to quit smoking, and also provide the effect of smoking to our body. Haha, well, that’s all for this article .
Haha Chong Sian! Thanks for supporting! I hope that you can visit my blog always! Keep in touch!
nice tips
i’ll try it
hopely i can quit smoke
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Hi Willy,
Thanks for dropping by again. Quitting smoking is not easy but good for health. Hope that these can help you regain your healthy life!
I’ve tried just about every method there is out there and there is only one I can recommend – NLP! It eliminates the cravings.
Gum patches and all the other just did not cut it for me, not to mention cold turkey which was the hardest, I even tried the electric cig and it is just no match to the real thing.
Check out this article: http://quit-smoking-today.bestof-the-net.com
it’s the one that got me off the cigs and smoke free for GOOD even without gaining weight!
Good luck kicking the habit!
J.
I will try anything at this point.
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Quit smoking! what a challenge for smokers and their families. I would suggest that unless you wish for your children to smoke that you would do everything you can in your power to cease. The conditioning and role modeling of the young is our responsibility. It is not what we say it is what we do that is important! Three children in one family of Mum or Dad smokers will most likely produce at least 2 smokers.
Smoking is not good for health. It brings cancer. The risk of getting cancer is very high rather than the one who doesn’t smoke. Give up smoking to avoid cancer. More over you can save money also if you stop smoking.
Thanks for sharing such a nice article.
Hi Ashley! Smoking is not good for health. I hope that everyone can get this message clearly and apply in their daily life. Thanks for leaving a comment here!
Thank you for this 5A’s, I really need to know this especially at this age. Hopefully I will be able to keep myself healthy. But quitting smoking is very difficult task for us (smokers). Do you have links or an step by step guide and techniques article on how to quit smoking?
I agree with the 5 tips. It’s not easy to quit smoking. I think self descipline plays a major part.