Nursing Intervention on Smoking Cessation among COPD Patients: A Literature Review.

Abstract

It is only when smokers quit that patients can control COPD, to better themselves and to better their health. Nurse-led interventions play a core role in helping to aid in quitting smoking. Throughout this research, interventions known to encourage COPD smokers to stop smoking are explored, nurse health concerns are addressed, and interventions from recent studies on what can be done to promote COPD smokers to stop smoking are established.

A literature approach was taken to assess quitting smoking interventions in COPD patients. Ten articles from mostly the databases PubMed, MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar were chosen for analysis. They have established core themes like health influence due to smoking, management of COPD, quitting smoking role for health care providers, and barriers to effective care. Nurses performing motivational support together with individualized education and effective communication successfully help COPD patients stop smoking and manage their conditions. Individualized care combined with necessary technological integration and a prejudice-free system along with direct quitting smoking interventions, should address addiction and low motivation and stigma.

The study provides representative data about smoking cessation in COPD patients alongside an assessment for nursing practice. Health and wellness improvements of individuals can result from using evidence-based practice methods together with issue management in healthcare delivery systems. The quality of nurse-conducted smoking cessation programs requires both additional funding and extensive research to develop.