Nursing Assignment 6

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Module 4 Assignment

Rodriguez, Cindy

St. Thomas University

NUR-850-167

Corzo-Sanchez, Elisa

April 9, 2023

Module 4 Assignment

PICOT Question

The PICOT question drawn from assignments in modules one and two is "How effective are smoking cessation programs(I) in reducing cases of cancer and diabetes(O) in smokers (P) as compared to continuing the habit during medication (C) when applied for six months(T)."

Treatment for patients suffering from heart conditions and cancer, especially lung cancer, proves non-effective when a smoker is still in the habit (Stone & Paul, 2022). It applies to other types of cancer as well. Also, smoking patients under treatment for heart conditions have a rough recovery time. Additionally, their recovery procedure also takes longer than expected. In cases where they have undergone surgery, chances of long-term survival become low. This is because tobacco slows down the effectiveness of the drugs they are on.

Article Review for Smoking Cessation Programs

The first article was a study on how effective smoking cessation is for patients in cancer clinic centers. The article explains that cancer patients have a high tobacco exposure rate. According to the report, cancer patients are more likely to experience hardships while trying to quit smoking than the general population. Therefore, smoking cessation programs are an essential part of cancer therapy (Stone & Paul, 2022). The smoking cessation programs that would best serve this purpose include tobacco quitting campaigns and imposing heavy taxation on tobacco products.

Additionally, the federal government can set up policies governing tobacco use in collaboration with the world health organization. These cessation programs should emphasize the need to quit, provide warnings about the dangers of using tobacco and raise smoking bans (Stone & Paul 2022). The use of smoking cessation programs would help reduce the number of people smoking tobacco, positively enhance their health concerning cancer, have fewer diagnoses of cancer cases, and lower the demand for tobacco products. Contrary to this, when compared to quoting the habit without utilizing these programs, the demand and supply for tobacco products will still be the same, with high chances of bouncing back to the habit due to ready availability and decline in the recovery process.

The second article emphasizes smoking among healthcare facilities' leading causes of high mortality rates. It causes premature deaths, especially in patients who are suffering from diabetes as a result of tobacco abuse (Zamzuri et al., 2021). The article also highlights that the deaths caused by this habit are preventable. To ensure the problem is addressed, the report suggests using smoking cessation programs to achieve positive health outcomes. The smoking cessation utilized in this article is the quit smoking clinics. With great commitment from the nursing fraternity, the program has successfully achieved the target of quitting smoking in all public healthcare facilities. The study was conducted on 285 smokers, and upon implementation of the program, 30.2% of the smokers had successfully quit smoking (Zamzuri et al., 2021). Additionally, reported cases of diabetes deterioration went down. The article recommended expanding smoking cessation programs to private sectors as they proved effective.

Data Collection Methods

While researching how effective smoking cessation programs are in quitting tobacco for smokers, several data collection methods can be utilized. In this case, one data collection method will be most suitable. A review of registry data and clinical notes collected from public health clinics will be utilized to compare smokers who enrolled on the cessation programs (Tsourtos et al., 2019). The basis of comparison for the collected data is the frequency with which smokers honored appointments and the presence of diabetes and cancer co-occurring cases. In summary, a drop in the number of smokers will be evidence of the success rate of the utilization of smoking cessation programs as compared to personal quitting approaches.

References

Stone, E., & Paul, C. (2022). The tobacco endgame—a new paradigm for smoking cessation in cancer clinics.  Current Oncology,  29(9), 6325-6333.

Tsourtos, G., Foley, K., Ward, P., Miller, E., Wilson, C., Barton, C., & Lawn, S. (2019). Using a nominal group technique to approach consensus on a resilience intervention for smoking cessation in a lower socioeconomic population.  BMC Public Health,  19, 1-15.

Zamzuri, M. A. I. A., Kamarudin, S. A. A., Ariffin, A. H., Ibrahim, A. A., Othman, M. H., Johari, A., ... & Pang, N. T. P. (2021). Rate of smoking cessation and factors associated with successful quit smoking in Seremban District of Malaysia.  Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health,  12, 100862.