SMOKING CESSATION THE MINIMAL CONTACT INTERVENTION Smoking Cessation
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SMOKING CESSATION: THE MINIMAL CONTACT INTERVENTION
Smoking Cessation 5 A Model of Minimal Contact Tobacco Intervention:
5 A Model: Ask About Tobacco Use � “Have you used any form of tobacco in the past six months? ” None Reinforce Yes Advise
5 A Model: Advise all tobacco users to quit Urge every tobacco user to quit in a way that is personally relevant. “Tobacco use is thought to lower the effectiveness of this treatment, as your nurse, the most important advice I can give you is to quit smoking. ” “The symptoms you are having may be related to your tobacco use, as your nurse, the most important advice I can give you is to quit smoking. ” “Continued tobacco use can increase your chance of recurrence and/or development of a second primary, as your nurse, the most important advice I can give you is to quit smoking. ”
5 A Model: Assess tobacco user’s readiness to quit �Ask every tobacco user if they are ready to make a quit attempt at this time. �Assess how important it is for them to quit and how confident they are to make a change.
5 A Model: Assist tobacco users in quitting �Build motivation to change. �Help patient identify possible barriers to changing and possible benefits to quitting. �introduce pharmacotherapy options.
5 A Model: Arrange You can quit! We can help. Call today. FREE * CONFIDENTIAL * ONE-TO-ONE Monday to Thursday, 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. Fridays, 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Weekends, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Self Help Resources Make self help resources available in all patient waiting areas
Why do this? It’s not impossible to quit 45 to 50% will attempt to quit in the next 12 months, but… Only 5 to 7% of unaided attempts will succeed for one year or more >80% of smokers eventually quit