Abstract

Smoking Cessation Counselling: What Makes Her or Him a Good Counsellor? Can Counselling Technique Be Deduced to Other Important Lifestyle Counselling Competencies?

Highlights

  • Salutogenesis is a term coined by Aaron Antonovsky, a professor of medical sociology

  • What kind of knowledge is important for smoking counselling? Based on the evaluation points of the smoking counselling interviews in Swiss courses [23, 24], the knowledge questions examined in the study by Purkabiri et al relate to a basic knowledge of the procedure for counselling, the steps leading to a smoking stop and its effects, cigarettes, nicotine and nicotine replacement therapy [16]

  • The remarkable change in attitudes resulting from a smoking counselling course can best provide positive outcomes in the long term, as it is likely that behaviour towards the patient is most strongly influenced in this dimension

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Summary

64 Smoking Prevention and Cessation

Keywords: smoking cessation counselling, medical education, curriculum, communication skills, motivational interviewing, knowledge, skills, attitude, tobacco cessation education, exercise, physical activity, overweight, compulsive buying, compulsive gambling, workaholism, sleep

Introduction
Description of the course
Evaluation of the course
Effectiveness of the course
Knowledge: the network of necessary facts we need for professional work
Skills: a basis to communication and efficient interaction for therapists
General concepts regarding behavioural change in lifestyle
The different motivational stages of smoking cessation
Five major steps to intervention (the “5 As”)
The five Rs of motivation
Relevance
Rewards
The consulting algorithm
Working material
Sedentary behaviour: “Inactivity is the new smoking”
What to recommend for physical activity to patients and clients?
Overweight and obesity
What are the relevant aims for weight reduction?
Sleep: your body’s best friend
Other substance addiction than smoking
Compulsive buying
Pathological gambling or compulsive gambling (ludomania)
Workaholism
Conclusion
Conflict of interest
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