Question

What are some challenges/barriers that faced as a nursing educator during smoking cessation education ? What can be done differently to overcome these challenges?

Answer 1

Tobacco use;-resulting in a world wide increase in tobacco related death and dissabilities. Hospitalization provide an opportunity to encourage the inpatient to quit smoking.

From nurse counsellors perspective and effective smoking cessation programme should be patient centered and provide a supportive environment.another common finding is that effective smoking cessation counselling involves encouraging patients to modify their lifestyles.patient education and preventive health care are an integral component of nursing education.

Challenges to smoking cessation counselling include lack of time and incentives for nurse involvement.lack of information about the harm of smoking and benefits of quitting.cessation need to be integrated into routine nurse patient interaction and relationship.nursing care play a main role in smoking cessation.but encounter many problems when providing support.

Nurses experienced important barriers,such as unmotivated clients and support methods that do not fit clients needs.underlying reasons are competing care demands and unsatisfactory training for cessation support,lack of self efficacy in attending their client and conflict with own professional attitudes.

* Increasing the motivation of the smoking client to quit smoking.

* Discussing and removing barriers to smoking cessation and mobilizing support in the immediate environment.

* The main barriers is to quiting smoking is irritability, habits, withdrawal symptoms,fear of failure,weigh gain.

Ask the patient about smoking status and assess their motivation to stop.

Adivice a patients on the benefits of smoking cessation.

Assist patients in stopping by helping them plan and prepare for cessation.

Arrange for them to use professional help and advice from the smoking cessation service.