Question

Discussion Question #2: Joyce Weathers is a 62-year-old patient with emphysema. Mrs. Weathers is a grandmother who has smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for more than 40 years. She enjoys smoking and does not want to quit. Her physician has become insistent that Mrs. Weathers quit. She tries, but each time she becomes nasty and irritable around her family. She lives with her daughter and two young grandchildren. The family members want her to quit, but it becomes very unpleasant at home when Mrs. Weathers tries to quit. Using the value choice theories described in the chapter - should Mrs. Weathers quit or continue to smoke?

Answer 1

Value -choice theories are rational choice assumptions. Person protects their health as per their beliefs that have serious consequence, and action to avoid smoking. The health belief model focus on people to quit smoking as per their choices to avoids health illness susceptible to their conditions. If they believe this fact it helps them to quit smoking. The theory of planned behavior suggests behavior and normative beliefs make a person change their behavior to quit smoking. The theory of reasoned action made the concept of perceived behavioral control. As an individual, they know the better choice for their health, but they know to implement smoking with or without belief.
Theories insist on individual and information they have an independent choice for their decisions if it based on the self-conscious. These theories focus on individual behavior not to use tobacco as the right choice, but also it focuses on the individual preference that influences their behavior, so it focuses on individual interest to accept or against the tobacco behavior.