See attached for reference: Please follow and use the PLAN IDENTIFICATION and BASELINE DATA already provided for the assignment. Complete Project Segment Three:Please discuss the elements for your Key Driver Diagram and your draft of your family of measures (process, outcome, and balancing measures). Your measures should be written in the SMART goal format. This is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely and Segment 4:Discuss the changes that you are testing and what your data shows so far. Please insert a key drive diagram in segment three. Segment 3 and 4 are separate from one another within assignment.
Plan Identification: During my 9 year tenure in the United States Army as a Senior Medic (out of all things because I know how bad of an issue/problem this is), I picked up a very bad habit of smokeless tobacco (dip). I started in early 2012 and I would say I almost over enjoyed it simply because it turned into a stress reliever and a very bad habit. As years went on, I never truly considered quitting or even easing off of it because of how highly addicted I was to this terrible habit. Over the years, I developed gum recession and borderline dependency. I have attempted to "quit" on numerous occasions but never really wanted to commit to it but wanted to quit due to the long-term and short-term effects that smokeless tobacco can have on an individual. I simply did not want to quit. As of recent, before trying alternatives like everyone else does, I knew that wouldn't stop my addiction so I took a route that will not only help me quit while changing something to my appearance but at a cost. Never truly had bad smile but I decided to engage in utilizing a form of Invisalign called Byte. There were two plans that I could do, one being lengthier than the other. One consisted of only wearing the retainers at night and the other for 22 plus hours a day. I chose the 22 hours a day method for a reason. While using these retainers, obviously you have to take them out to eat (which I wouldn't be surprised if some do not) but it is quite the process when it comes to eating, taking the retainers out, brushing, flossing, and putting them back in, and if you want to abide by the procedure set forth for the amount of money being spent, you should do it the proper way. Now imagine using smokeless tobacco (dip) and considering the amount of my use (which is/was very heavy), going through that procedure numerous times a day to ensure my treatment plan was properly followed. I just began this process on Monday with under a 13 week treatment plan. As Monday, I have only had 6 sessions of using smokeless tobacco whereas I had used at least that amount per day. Problem: Smokeless Tobacco (dip); Solution/Plan: Byte teeth straightening/whitening retainers. Baseline Data: This is a simple post of how my initial SMART Goal looked as it was pulled from the previous discussion during the identification of the problem: The Specifics would be me quitting tobacco usage and staying true to my Byte retained plan. The steps for this are more based around self-discipline than anything. For the Measurables I would have to say that my intended Byte plan is finished Sept 2022, that is already measured with set timeframes for each retained weekly. For the tobacco usage, I have set a goal for the next several weeks to lower my usage (this past week, no more than 4 dip sessions per day for two weeks in which I was actually lower than that). As the weeks go on, the usage will continue to decrease. These are achievable goals based on my measurables. Just takes discipline as stated. The Relevancy of this goal is obviously needing to stop my tobacco usage so my health stays in check. The straighter and whiter smile are just a plus. For Time, I did not set this quite yet to have quit because I needed to see how my mind would react to slowing down so drastically. I believe that in the next several weeks I will have a good gauge on when that time will be set. I also included some initial baseline data in my original post regarding my tobacco usage which strongly correlates to how many hours a day my Byte retainers are in as well as food intake. I initially began this baseline data the day I started wearing my retainers (Monday, June 20th, 2022). The key goal is to obviously stay on track with my treatment plan but to reduce the intake of tobacco usage. The first week my goal was to have no more than three sessions of dip per day. I hate sharing this but I also had bad usage right before bed and that was key for my to completely cut out as my first step. I excelled with keeping my dip usage down to three a day and have completely cut out all nightly tobacco use as of Tuesday evening (June 21st, 2022). The goal for this week was to limit down to two tobacco sessions per day. As of now, I have kept the normal rate of last week. I have correlated this to the times I remove the retainers to eat a meal or snack. While the retainers are out, I have the strong urge to use tobacco since my teeth are already "dirty" and I will need to brush them again before reapplying my retainers on my teeth. The goal for next week is to accomplish only 2 dips per day and wear my retainers over 16 hours per day. This is a 13 piece process over the next several months. By week 5, I hope to be down to 1 dip per day and retainers up to 20 hours per week. During week 7, zero dip and 22 hours a day for retainers. Project Completion by August 7th, 2022 Finish: Discussion - Project segment #3 - Key Driver Diagram and establish your family of measures Please discuss the elements for your Key Driver Diagram and your draft of your family of measures (process, outcome, and balancing measures). Your measures should be written in the SMART goal format. This is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. Discussion - Project segment #4 - Test the changes and collect data Discuss the changes that you are testing and what your data shows so far.