The Lived Experience of a Changing Relationship with Tobacco: A Perspective of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Individuals experiencing serious mental illness (SMI) have significantly higher rates of \ntobacco use and although motivated to quit smoking are less successful with quit attempts thus \nincreasing their risk of chronic disease. A qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study that \nincluded photo elicitation was used to gain an understanding of what the lived experience of a \nchanging relationship with tobacco means to those living with SMI. Interviews with nine \nindividuals with varying diagnoses of SMI, and at various stages of changing their tobacco use \nbehaviour were interpreted to reflect six themes of the phenomenon. The findings align with the \ncore concepts of the Trans-theoretical Model and also parallel the consumer driven concept of \nrecovery in mental illness. The mental health care provider’s integration of tobacco cessation \ninto practice using a recovery model approach, may serve a dual purpose of improving quit \nsmoking rates as well as supporting the individual’s recovery in mental illness.
Author: Janet Allen
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2516844889