Strategies For Cessation
Strategies for Cessation
Whether smokers quit on their own or in a formal treatment program, they are more likely to succeed if they expect many health and other benefits from quitting, use a variety of active methods to stay off cigarettes and cope with withdrawal (e.g., avoiding smoking places and people, thinking “positive,” finding alternative ways to cope with stress and have social support for their efforts to quit and remain smoke free.
The Tran theoretic Model of behavioral change, introduced by Prochaska and colleagues provides a critical framework for understanding how smokers quit on their own. According to this model, smokers achieve long-term quitting success by advancing through a sequence of five motivational and behavioral …show more content…
ex-smokers have quit on their own without the benefit of any formal treatment program. The 8 to 15% 1-year quit rates that are typically achieved by smokers without formal assistance or with self-help materials and aids are quite respectable compared with the 20 to 25% 1-year quit rates of most formal treatment programs.
Self-help programs that are designed to equip smokers with needed motivations, skills, and support and to help them progress through these stages of change can boost the success rate of self-quit efforts. In 1991, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) published a practical guide to self-help quitting programs entitled Guided Strategies for Smoking Cessation: A Program Planner’s Guide. This guide presents five basic strategies for self-help programs, including
(a) Implementing policy and motivational strategies to motivate more smokers to try to quit on their own,
(b) Targeting self-change programs to all the stages of smoking cessation,
(c) Including critical cessation information and quitting methods in self-guide programs,
(d) Using adjuncts proven to boost self-quitting success rates, …show more content…
Three adjunctive treatment strategies are singled out as raising self-help treatment success: personalized, computer-generated feedback; brief, personalized telephone counseling; and nicotine replacement therapy. Increasingly, state-of-the-art medical and commercial self-help quit smoking programs include these
Whether smokers quit on their own or in a formal treatment program, they are more likely to succeed if they expect many health and other benefits from quitting, use a variety of active methods to stay off cigarettes and cope with withdrawal (e.g., avoiding smoking places and people, thinking “positive,” finding alternative ways to cope with stress and have social support for their efforts to quit and remain smoke free.
The Tran theoretic Model of behavioral change, introduced by Prochaska and colleagues provides a critical framework for understanding how smokers quit on their own. According to this model, smokers achieve long-term quitting success by advancing through a sequence of five motivational and behavioral …show more content…
ex-smokers have quit on their own without the benefit of any formal treatment program. The 8 to 15% 1-year quit rates that are typically achieved by smokers without formal assistance or with self-help materials and aids are quite respectable compared with the 20 to 25% 1-year quit rates of most formal treatment programs.
Self-help programs that are designed to equip smokers with needed motivations, skills, and support and to help them progress through these stages of change can boost the success rate of self-quit efforts. In 1991, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) published a practical guide to self-help quitting programs entitled Guided Strategies for Smoking Cessation: A Program Planner’s Guide. This guide presents five basic strategies for self-help programs, including
(a) Implementing policy and motivational strategies to motivate more smokers to try to quit on their own,
(b) Targeting self-change programs to all the stages of smoking cessation,
(c) Including critical cessation information and quitting methods in self-guide programs,
(d) Using adjuncts proven to boost self-quitting success rates, …show more content…
Three adjunctive treatment strategies are singled out as raising self-help treatment success: personalized, computer-generated feedback; brief, personalized telephone counseling; and nicotine replacement therapy. Increasingly, state-of-the-art medical and commercial self-help quit smoking programs include these