Developing a plan
with your client: 8 Steps

As the health care provider you need to assist your client with developing a list or reasons to stop smoking. Some things to keep in mind when creating this list:

Concentrate on the positive aspects of quitting
• Immediate results could be taste and smell of food improves
• Cough should subside
• Decreased risk of lung cancer
• Decreased risk of heart disease and stroke
• Save money: a pack a day smoker who pays $3.00 a pack will save more than $1,092.00 per year

Write down why the client wants to quit, not reasons that you as the health care provider feel they should quit. This will help assure relevance to the client's situation and allow them to quit for their own reasons not because you want them to quit. Behavior change must be a self-motivated change to ensure better success rates.

For more information on the Behavioral Stages of Change please click on the Behavioral Stages of Change or refer to the Behavioral Stages of Change in the Hand Outs section.

Understand that quitting will be difficult for your client but try to emphasize the difficulties or barriers the client needs to overcome to be successful. When making this list be certain to also focus on the positive results of quitting instead of simply addressing the challenges to quitting.

Women are more likely to try quitting than men, but men are more successful at quitting than women.

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