Table 1.
Information strengths and deficits
| Category | Strength/ Deficit |
Total na |
Clients na |
Client Examples | Counselors na |
Counselor Examples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | ||||||
| Health effects of smoking |
Strength | 7 | 5 | “If you smoke you have a higher risk of breast cancer, lung cancer…all kinds of cancers and heart attack… but you still smoke. It’s like we know the dangers and we know we are killing ourselves.” |
2 | “I think they have some knowledge of it [the health effects of smoking], and they choose to ignore that.” |
| Deficit | 11 | 6 | “…I did not know anything about smoking. It made me feel good and that was it. I never knew about all of the hidden dangers which I am trying to learn now.” |
5 | “They don’t see it as a cigarette is a drug. It’s like water. It’s acceptable. ‘I can drink water. It’s not going to kill me.’” |
|
| Toxins in cigarettes |
Strength | 1 | 1 | “Like rat poisoning…all that kind of stuff. I mean, there is everything in cigarettes.” |
0 | |
| Deficit | 4 | 3 | “I have a question…there is still enough hazardous…what is the word I am looking for…leftovers? The toxins on the clothes…that could affect a child or baby?” |
1 | Clients need “more education, I guess, on how it [smoking] affects the body. Or what really makes up a cigarette.” |
|
| Treatment | ||||||
| Pharmacoherapy | Strength | 22 | 15 | “I know that there is a nicotine patch and that there is a gum.” |
7 | “I know a few of them have said they tried the patch or the gum.” |
| Deficit | 16 | 11 | “I didn’t even know Chantix existed. Does that contain nicotine?” |
5 | “A lot of them really do not want to take any medications because they are misinformed.” |
|
| Smoking cessation counseling resources |
Strength | 8 | 6 | “I know that there is a help for quitting hotline.” (Client) |
2 | “I have had a couple of people say that they have gone to a quit center.” |
| Deficit | 3 | 2 | “I don’t know [about any options for getting help to quit smoking].” |
1 | “I think there is a lack of awareness about it. Not everybody knows about the quit center that was there.” |
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| Drug relapse risk | ||||||
| The relationship between quitting smoking and drug relapse |
Strength | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Deficit | 5 | 5 | “I think, in some peoples’ cases, smoking and drinking helps them stay clean.” |
0 | ||
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