Raising Awareness and Promoting Behavior Change to Reduce and Stop Smoking in Patients with Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases

Abstract

The World Health Organization reports that diseases caused by people spending lives in the world today are chronic non-communicable diseases. These diseases are caused by inappropriate daily living such as smoking, resulting in a deterioration in quality of life, disability or even a cause of death.

          Smoking is a global health threat, specifically, in people with chronic diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, hypertension, Stroke, and coronary heart disease and causing this group of patients to have more severe symptoms. Educating and enhancing health promotion skills to help patients with chronic diseases to quit smoking to reduce the severity of the disease and to raise awareness of the danger of cigarettes for non-communicable diseases patients and the public is an important role of nurses in tobacco control and is also an important component of NCD care. Smoking increases the severity of the disease among non-communicable diseases. Smoking increases the severity of the disease among non-communicable diseases.

          This article discusses the knowledge about the dangers of smoking to raise awareness of behavioral modifications for smoking cessation in patients with chronic non-communicable diseases. This is to promote the quality of life of this group of patients.