The main purpose of this research is to find out how brief cognitive behavior intervention influences the motivation level, psychological distress, and quality of life among people with smoking cessation. Another objective of this research is to examine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) among smoking people, another objective of this study is to investigate how Cognitive behavioral therapy helps to enhance the motivation level and quality of life and minimize psychological distress among people with smoking cessation
Participants: This was basically pre and post study, initially 60 sixty research participants were recruited for pre-assessment, while 4 participants left due to some reasons (2 persons went out of the city for a job, 1 person met a severe road accident, and 1 person simply refused to participate in this study furthermore. Finally, 55 research participants were recruited for post-assessment. These research participants belong to different residential areas (rural/urban) have varied family systems (nuclear/joint) have different birth order, education, socioeconomic status, education, occupation, marital status, and distant smoking duration. The data were analyzed with the help of SPSS-23 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences - 23) descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and repeated measure ANOVA were used to understand the association and differences among pre and post-assessment of smoking personals.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
Psychoeducational Program would be used as an intervention strategy for individuals with smoking cessation to provide understanding and insight to the participants about the problem. Furthermore, this program would deal with interventions like motivation, cognitive conceptualization, coping skills and training, craving management, and relapse prevention among individuals with smoking cessation
GCUF
Faisalābad, Punjab Province, Pakistan
Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)
The ASSIST (Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test) was developed under the supervision of WHO (World Health Organization) by a group of researchers, clinicians, public health providers in 2010 (WHO, 2010). It mainly screens out the individual tendency to use Alcohol, Tabaco and other substances. This test mainly has seven items, which shows good test-retest reliability ranging from 0.6 to 0.8 (Humeniuk, 2008).
Time frame: 6 months
Cigarette Dependency scale (CDS)
The CDS (Cigarette Dependency scale) was developed by Jean-Francois Etter, PhD in 2003. (CDS; Etter et al.,2023). This scale has twelve items which gauge the addiction level, smoking compulsion, tolerability and withdrawal tendency of a person.
Time frame: 6 months
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS)
The (DASS) Depression Anxiety Stress Scale was developed in the University of New South Wales Australia to assess the level of depression, anxiety and stress among students. The DASS-21 was developed by Lovibond and Lovibond in 1995 (Minh Thi Hong Le, 2017). In this study the Urdu translated version of DASS was used which were translated by Naeem and Kamal in 2018 (Naeem and Kamal, 2018). It is very reliable and valid tool to assess negative emotional state of depression, stress and anxiety. The overall reliability of DASS is 0.74.
Time frame: 6 months
Motivation and Attitude towards changing Health (MATCH)
The MATCH (Motivation and Attitude towards changing Health) was developed by Hessler, Fisher, Polonsky, Browyer and Potter in 2018 (Hessler DM, Fisher L, Polonsky WH, Browyer V \& Potter M., 2018). It's basically consist 9 items with 5 points Likert's scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree).
Time frame: 6 months
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