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A Community‐Based Smoking‐ Cessation Program: Self‐Care Behaviors and Success
Author(s) -
Utz Sharon Williams,
Shuster George F.,
Merwin Elizabeth,
Williams Barbara
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1994.tb00190.x
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , medicine , family medicine , quit smoking , public health , self efficacy , nursing , health care , psychology , social psychology , pathology , economics , economic growth
Given the serious health consequences of smoking, nurses need to be well‐informed on how to help various client populations with smoking cessation. Much recent research is focused upon effectiveness of various programs to enhance self‐efficacy and self‐management skills necessary to succeed in permanent smoking cessation. This study used a model based on Orem's Self‐Care Deficit Theory to examine specific variables of importance in smoking cessation using descriptors relevant to understanding self‐care actions. The model is used to examine the outcomes of a community‐based smoking‐cessation program. Results indicate that 15% of the final sample quit smoking and 42% reduced smoking while participating in the program. Additional findings are helpful in describing actions taken by subjects who were and were not successful in quitting. Remedies suggested by the American Lung Association booklet “Freedom from Smoking for You and Your Family” were reported by subjects to be helpful in dealing with the most common problems experienced during smoking cessation. Results are applied to public health nursing, emphasizing that smoking cessation is “a process” in which individuals learn strategies that work for them.