Excelsior College Smoking Individual Behavior Influence Using Statistics Essay

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  1. What are some of the factors that influence individuals to smoke?
  2. Aside from having an addiction, what are some of the other factors that make it difficult for individuals to stop smoking?
  3. How might a health professional use statistics to influence an individual to stop smoking?

Please consider environmental factors when responding to each question. There is no need to justify your answer with cited data from related articles.

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Running head: INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR INFLUENCE USING STATISTICS

Individual Behavior Influence Using Statistics
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INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR INFLUENCE USING STATISTICS

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Individual Behavior influence using statistics
Smoking is the most significant cause of mortality and morbidity in the world, as well as
a significant public health problem. According to WHO (2013), annual deaths from tobacco
consumption are in the range of five million people. Successful cessation of smoking (SC)
reduces the incidences of comorbidity and death among smokers. Various environmental and
psychosocial factors influence smoking behaviors. Individuals smoke even after adjustment to
the person level SES (Ciapponi & World Health Organization, 2014).
Similarly, community poverty and education and employment are related to smoking
among African American females were correlated with low-neighborhood socio-economic ...


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