Essay On Health Belief Model
Application of the Health Belief Model to Smoking Cessation
Introduction
The processes of smoking cessation is very personal to me. My mother passed away at the age of 56 from lung cancer. My mother grew up in Ireland. She, and all of her friends and family smoked. She would explain to me that it was charming to smoke as she grew up with the images of women and men smoking on the silver screen, and that they made it look inviting. Unfortunately for many, including Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Rosemary Clooney, Dezi Arnez, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, and David McLaren, the famous Marlboro man, smoking ended their lives through cancer or smoking related circulatory disease (Smoke Away Blog, 2007)
My mother would try to explain why it was so difficult to stop smoking. I remember as a young girl, that she tried many times and failed very quickly after each attempt. There are a vast variety of reasons why so many people are unsuccessful in their attempts. My mother reported that she could not stop because the addiction was so strong. Methods such as the patch, nicotine gum, and the popular vapor of today were not available to her. She would actually roll up tinfoil into the shape of a cigarette just to have something in her hand. For my mother, she was unsuccessful so many times most likely due to the …show more content…
The HBM was first developed in the 1950s by social psychologists working in the U.S. Public Health Services to ascertain why individuals would not participate in programs to prevent or detect public health diseases (Roden, 2004). Nursing borrowed this theory and utilized it as a tool to help patients prevent disease. The HBM has four main concepts that relate to an individual perceived threat(s) and benefit(s) to smoking cessation: perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, and perceived
Introduction
The processes of smoking cessation is very personal to me. My mother passed away at the age of 56 from lung cancer. My mother grew up in Ireland. She, and all of her friends and family smoked. She would explain to me that it was charming to smoke as she grew up with the images of women and men smoking on the silver screen, and that they made it look inviting. Unfortunately for many, including Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Rosemary Clooney, Dezi Arnez, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, and David McLaren, the famous Marlboro man, smoking ended their lives through cancer or smoking related circulatory disease (Smoke Away Blog, 2007)
My mother would try to explain why it was so difficult to stop smoking. I remember as a young girl, that she tried many times and failed very quickly after each attempt. There are a vast variety of reasons why so many people are unsuccessful in their attempts. My mother reported that she could not stop because the addiction was so strong. Methods such as the patch, nicotine gum, and the popular vapor of today were not available to her. She would actually roll up tinfoil into the shape of a cigarette just to have something in her hand. For my mother, she was unsuccessful so many times most likely due to the …show more content…
The HBM was first developed in the 1950s by social psychologists working in the U.S. Public Health Services to ascertain why individuals would not participate in programs to prevent or detect public health diseases (Roden, 2004). Nursing borrowed this theory and utilized it as a tool to help patients prevent disease. The HBM has four main concepts that relate to an individual perceived threat(s) and benefit(s) to smoking cessation: perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, and perceived