Tag: Smoking

Smoking is an extremely crucial public health issue which is considered to be an immediate and serious threat to many developing countries across the globe. Being one of the most significant determinants of increased rate of mortality and ill-health throughout the world, smoking is still a preventable epidemic.

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Causes and Effects of Teenage Smoking

Nursing Essays

Teens who start smoking as their habit can contribute their self in the increasing numbers of adult smokers in the future because young people are especially vulnerable to the pressure to start smoking. ...

Last modified: 20th Oct 2021

The Harmful Effects of Smoking

Nursing Essays

In conclusion smoking is not only harmful to you but all the people around you. People who smoke have increased their chance of getting heart diseases and lung cancer. Smoking is bad addiction and as soon we can get rid of smoking it’s better for people around us....

Last modified: 20th Oct 2021

Smoking and The Theory Of Planned Behaviour Essay

Nursing Essays

There is no safe level of smoking. Tobacco smoking among adolescent Australians is at an all time high. Nearly 40 000 Queensland secondary school students are classified as current smokers...

Last modified: 14th Apr 2021

A Critical Appraisal of the Giving Up Smoking in Pregnancy Initiative

Nursing Assignments

The object of this assignment is to critically appraise a health promotion initiative related to midwifery practice. The initiative chosen is a NHS Health Scotland leaflet entitled ‘Smoking: giving up during pregnancy: a guide for pregnant women who want to stop smoking’...

Last modified: 8th Apr 2021

Review of Literature on Smoking and Urinary Bladder Carcinoma

Nursing Literature Reviews

Urinary bladder carcinoma is one of the most prevalent tumors worldwide and smoking is one of its major risk factors, studying the relationship between smoking and urinary bladder carcinoma is of great importance....

Last modified: 8th Apr 2021

Literature Review: Smoking And Coronary Artery Disease

Nursing Literature Reviews

Cigarette smoking highly boosts the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), and the associated risk is particularly high in subjects with diabetes mellitus (DM) (Mühlhauser, 1994)....

Last modified: 24th Mar 2021

Research Methodology: Effect of Smoking Cessation Education on Smoking Cessation

Nursing Case Studies

There are two types of research methods that can be used for an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) project, qualitative and quantitative....

Last modified: 23rd Mar 2021

Smoking as a Public Health Issue

Nursing Essays

It is now a matter of common public acceptance that smoking causes ill health. This statement can be backed up by huge amounts of authoritative literature (Dobson et al 1999) (Smoking Kills 1998) ...

Last modified: 22nd Dec 2020

Evaluating School-Based Life Skills Training to Prevent Smoking

Nursing Case Studies

According to research, cigarette smoking is detrimental to the human body being linked to causing multiple chronic conditions including heart disease, bronchitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...

Last modified: 29th Oct 2020

Issue of Smoking during Pregnancy

Nursing Essays

Smoking during Pregnancy Smoking is a significant issue with numerous diseases attached to the habit in today’s society. Even nonsmokers experience health issues as a result of the inhalation of...

Last modified: 2nd Jun 2020

Social Responsibility in the Tobacco Industry

Nursing Essays

ABSTRACT  Smoking has been in existence since the colonists were taught how to grow and use the crop by Native Americans back in the 1500s.  However, it has only been in the last 40 to 50 years that...

Last modified: 21st May 2020

Why Smoking is Not Illegal

Nursing Essays

The Tobacco Industry; Smoking Should be Illegal In the late 1400s, Europeans were the first to cultivate and discover tobacco. Since then the substance has become a widespread across the globe, from first becoming an economic standard, to becoming a fully developed tobacco industry in the 1700s...

Last modified: 18th May 2020

Health Promotion Case Study of Patient with Coronary Heart Disease

Nursing Case Studies

Introduction Throughout this assignment I have chosen to discuss a patient I have previously cared for during my placement on a cardiology ward. The patient which I will be writing about was diagnosed...

Last modified: 14th May 2020

Reflective Essay on Smoking Cessation

Reflective Essays

This essay provides a reflective account of the delivery of an opportunistic smoking cessation intervention. In constructing this account, Gibbs (1988) model of reflection has been utilised, which in...

Last modified: 12th Feb 2020

Smoking and lung disease

Nursing Questions

Question Why can smoking cause lung diseases? Answer Smoking cigarettes significantly increases the risk of contracting a lung disease (Hanania and Sharafkhaneh, 2011). The human respiratory system co...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Motivation interviewing: Smoking cessation

Nursing Essays

Despite the smoking ban making it illegal to smoke in enclosed public places, introduced in England in 2007, smoking remains one of the single greatest causes of preventable illness and premature deat...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Smoking during pregnancy

Nursing Essays

This essay discusses the public health issue of smoking during pregnancy in England. The purpose for selecting this public health issue will be described, utilising government statistics that highlig...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Ethical Decision Making in Smoking Cessation

Nursing Essays

According to University of California, School of Medicine (2010), Autonomy is the “personal rule of the self that is free from both controlling interferences by others and from personal limitati...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Interventions for Smoking Cessation

Nursing Essays

Introduction Health literacy is the “capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions” (Centers for Disease Cont...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Health Promotion in Nursing: Smoking Cessation

Nursing Essays

Public Health Issue SMOKING The purpose of this essay is to identify a public health issue related to a patient in my previous clinical placement. The patient Mrs M who was 35 year old woman diagnose...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Preventing Teenagers from Smoking

Nursing Essays

Problem statement It is well documented that tobacco use has caused many smoking related diseases yearly; De Meyrick (2000) reported that almost 20,000 people died each year from smoking related dise...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Smoking Cessation Support Activities Using Health Promotion

Nursing Essays

Title: Title: Smoking cessation support activities using health promotion -from the viewpoint of health promotion. Health promotion is a 21st century health strategy, which is based on ...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Influence of Peers and Parents on Smoking Initiation in Adolescents

Nursing Essays

Introduction In Lifespan Development (Fifth Edition), Boyd et al. defines sensation-seeking as “…a desire to experience increased levels of arousal, such as those that accompany fast...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Health Policy Regarding To Smoking Health And Social Care Essay

Nursing Essays

This essay will demonstrate the government health policies regarding to smoking including with changes in health care field from the development of NHS with current scenario. It is important to know w...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020

Smoking In England Health And Social Care Essay

Nursing Essays

Smoking is one of the major causes of preventable and premature death in the England. Smoking is a main contributory factor to the gap in mortality and healthy life expectancy between the most and lea...

Last modified: 11th Feb 2020