PLAIN LANGUAGE SMOKING CESSATION A Low/No Literacy Approach Deborah J. Stefanucci

This lecture is one of a series on local public health recruited by Charles J. Vukotich, Jr. of the Allegheny County Health Department (PA), as a scholar in the Northeast Regional Public Health Leadership Institute, Class of For information contact:

Deborah J. Stefanucci is an LPN with 28 years experience in the operating room, who has been Director of UR/QA for Northwest Physicians Associates, PC (NPA) for the last 9 years. In 2002, NPA established a non-profit foundation to bring health information to the community. Ms. Stefanucci has been active in developing tobacco outreach programs for the foundation.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES To understand the key concepts of smoking cessation. To understand the basic risks of smoking and the benefits of quitting.

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES Provide smoking cessation classes for those with no/low literacy that are equivalent to those offered to generally.

Opening remarks

Congratulate participants for attending

Chemicals

Three aspects of smoking

Nicotine addiction

Carbon Monoxide testing

What smoking robs you of

Stages of quitting

Set quit date.

Health benefits 20 minutes

Within 8 hours

Within 24/72 hours

3-4year benefits

Within 5 years

Within 10 years

Cost of smoking

Saving money

Starting to take control

What is NRT’s

Description of NRT’s