Question

Kate, a 38-year-old graduate student, has asthma and gets several respiratory infections each year. She also has smoked regularly for the past 20 years. Recently, she was diagnosed with an early stage of emphysema. Although her friends and family members have talked with her about smoking and its relationship to respiratory ailments, she is defiant about maintaining her habit. She insists that because she doesn't smoke in her car, her friends' cars, or in her house, her smoking is nobody else's business. Further, she says that several members of her family – even the nonsmokers – have a long history of respiratory problems. Therefore she believes that she would have developed asthma and emphysema anyway. Think about Kate's situation, and write a brief evaluation of it.

1. What part of Kate's argument about smoking is accurate and which part is inaccurate?

2. If nonsmokers don’t harm others by their smoking, should nonsmokers try to motivate them to quit?

3. If you were a close friend of Kate, what strategies might you try to encourage her to quit?

Answer 1

Q. 1= first of all if a person in smoker, is always a bad thing at all.

It's good thing about Kate's is quit smoking in the closed system like in car, in the house and even in the friends car also but it not good enough after all a poison is always a poison nobody can Change it.

Kate's is a primary smoker, he should know about their disadvantages for primary smoker's and also about secondary smoker.

Primary smoking gives a immediate harm or irritation to the respiratory system like burning, collection of corbon in airways, risk of developing cancer and also a main risk factor for many of the respiratory problems.

Kate's family members also have respiratory problems but this does not means that only primary smoking will affect in fact secondary smoking is also dangerous and some of the genetic factors also responsible.

Q2= if a smoker does not harm others by their smoking then also we should try to stop and encourage him his willingness to quit his/her smoking.

Because self control on smoking is very important in this.

Q3= if I am a friend of Kate then we will encourage him to stop smoking.

Also ask why he/she is smoking, if he is smoking when he is free then we try to keep him busy in some task and after completing task we have to tell them you doesn't need smoking only its a psychological need.

Help in joining the self help groups.

Also help in the group who successfully quit their smoking and live a healthy life.

Also tell the story of the previouly primary smoker and now they are non smokers.

Explain about the asthma and emphysema, how the smoking give rise or make worse their situation.

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