NURSE SMOKING a survey of knowledge and educational experience

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Hi Everybody:

Many of you know me from my posts on this forum over about the last year. I have appreciated the opportunity to interact with my fellow nurses on a wide array of topics. In the past we have had several discussions of nurse smoking in this little corner of the internet. Some time ago I decided to do DNP research project on Nurse Smoking and the impact it has on our abilities to do our job and our employability.

One of the reasons I choose this topic is the fact that I have struggled with being hooked on cigarettes since I was a teenager. Like many I smoke, I quit, I smoke.... so believe me my research doesn't come from a place of being judgmental or wishing to preach my colleagues in this community. It comes from pure curiosity. Why are Nurses so hard on themselves when we know better? Why don't we take better care of ourselves despite our advanced knowledge of poor health habits.

I am not researching if other nurses know the health consequences of smoking. You do. I'm curious to know if nurses will be more inclined to quit smoking if armed with certain facts about the impact this personal decision has upon our professional lives and our identity as nurses and healers.

Anyway, thank you in advance to those who agree to participate. If you wish to take part please go to this link:

PreTestUPON COMPLETION OF THIS PRETEST PLEASE GO TO http://www.youtube.com and search "William Cunningham Nurse Smoking Video" to take part in the educational experience and the Post-Test. Thank You!!! Survey

Once there you will be given instruction on how to get to the educational session and post test.

Thanks Again,

Spanked

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.

As an RN, and RRT......hardest thing to give up,

I had wonderful results with Chantix, But it is not appropriate for all.....some significant side effects, I was just blessed to not experience any....

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
As an RN, and RRT......hardest thing to give up,

I had wonderful results with Chantix, But it is not appropriate for all.....some significant side effects, I was just blessed to not experience any....

Hey sally, is it just my imagination? It's seems to me there are more RT smokers per capita than RNs. What do you think?

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.
Hey sally, is it just my imagination? It's seems to me there are more RT smokers per capita than RNs. What do you think?

You just might be correct

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

Spanked, I'm gonna take the survey, but not today! Bud Light on the beach with my Sweet Petunia today. Maybe even fire up a fat cigar!

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God Bless Ya Old Dude!!! Have much fun!!!

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

My pretest grade was 50 and my post test grade was 75...which was as good as a 100 when I was in nursing school so I got real learned up today!! It was kinda hard...

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

I have, for lack of a better expression "an addictive personality" and I'm so very thankful that my parents did not smoke, nor most of my friends growing up (or even in adulthood) so that the thought of smoking really didn't enter into my brain. (My parents are pro-marijuana and anti-nicotine which is interesting, also).

My best friend has quit successfully a handful of times, as has her husband, but she simply cannot shake it. But she grew up watching her dad roll his own unfiltered cigarettes and smoke, then when she worked in the restaurant industry, it was more of a social thing. I worked at a handful of restaurants and was typically the only person on shift who didn't smoke and that was awfully annoying!

Anyway, I don't think smoking is anything a person tries without some semblance of peer pressure or learned behavior from family.

I really didn't contribute anything useful...sorry haha.

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Thanks old Dude.

Penelope, I learned to smoke with the other knuckleheads I ran with way back when. It was a different world back then. I grew up in a lower-middle class neighborhood and honestly I thought everybody smoked. It was certainly more socially acceptable and (I think) viewed by some as a sort of rite of passage into adulthood. However today's realities are not kind to us smokers nor should they really be. I'm old (56) and I think the first thing I remember watching on TV was a public service announcement from the American Lung Society that Cancer would kill ya if you smoked. In my age group and below we all assumed the risk of smoking but as it turns out we didn't just bear the consequences of our choices. We drive up healthcosts. We drive our coworkers nuts by smelling like an ashtray.....

Oh well like the old song said "the times they are a changing.."

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Is the survey just for smokers?

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The survey is but if you are to you can watch just the educational experience part. Go to YouTube and type in William Cunningham Nurse Smoking Video and you can check out some things I found out about Nurse smoking and the consequences of that choice on employability an collegial relationships

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Great project! Happy to say I quit cold turkey in the late 90s after being a smoker for 10+ years. I am a stubborn ginger and I was determined to quit because people told me I couldn't. I did lapse for about 6 months back in 2012 when I was in the Army, but I quit again forever. I had one cigarette in Afghanistan (it was a bad day) and I vomited, it was so foul. Might have been the cigarette, might have been that it was an Afghan cigarette. Either way, I'm done!!

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