Nursing Interventions and Challenges in Supporting Smoking Cessation Among Adults

Abstract

This study was intended to explain nurse interventions that were adopted to assist smoking cessation among adults in the hospital facilities and these were aimed at discovering the difficulties nurses face when offering the assistance. The study was performed as a descriptive literature review, with the PICo framework being used to perform the literature search and study selection by applying coherent inclusion and exclusion criteria to make sure that only relevant and quality literature is included. The search in academic databases was conducted systematically, total number of included article 21 and the systematic search was analyzed with the content analysis conducted inductively. Findings were divided into two main categories including nursing interventions for smoking cessation and challenges in nursing interventions for smoking cessation. The interventions in nursing included counseling, health education, patientnurse interactions, follow-up, and pharmacotherapy. Challenges encountered were organizational and system barriers, professional competence and knowledge deficiency barriers, and patient-related barriers. The results demonstrate the advantages and the shortcomings of the nurse-led smoking cessation support with the necessity of developing professional competence, providing more organization support, and approaching the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions in hospitals in a more systematic manner.