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Smoking Cessation:
One of the most important aspects in enhancing the effectiveness of healthcare services is to promote the professional role of the nurse to provide health promotion and disease preventive care. This can be achieved through collaboration with other healthcare professionals and consumer groups in the community in redesigning healthcare that can assist in achievement of the goals of Healthy People 2020. An example of a focus area that could benefit from such initiatives is smoking cessation or tobacco use. Smoking cessation is an initiative that is geared towards lessening tobacco use, which in turn reduces its health effects and death related to its use and smoke exposure. Actually, smoking cessation is associated with decreased illness, disability, and tobacco- or smoke-related deaths.
The need for smoking cessation is brought by the significant increase in scientific knowledge about the health effects of tobacco use ("Tobacco Use," 2013). Since the first Surgeon General's report in 1964, increased use of tobacco is associated with...
In addition to this, secondhand exposure to smoke can cause considerable health effects because there is no risk-free level for such exposure. According to scientific knowledge such exposure causes lung cancer and heart disease in adults and other health-related problems in infants and children. Some of these health related problems caused by smoke exposure in children include respiratory infections, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), ear infections, and severe asthma attacks. The other form of tobacco use that causes health related problems is smokeless tobacco, which may lead to serious oral health problems, loss of tooth, cancer of the gums and mouth, and periodontitis. The use of cigar also has significant health effects like cancer of the lung, larynx, esophagus, and mouth.
Therefore, lessening tobacco use through smoking cessation has significant benefits to the individual, family, community, and all age groups…
References:
"About the American Heart Association." (n.d.). American Heart Association -- Our Mission.
Retrieved November 6, 2013, from http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/General/About-Us-American-Heart-Association_UCM_305422_SubHomePage.jsp
"Tobacco Use." (2013, April 10). Healthy People. Retrieved from U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services website: http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/overview.aspx?topicid=41
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