Work through the following questions to develop skills in relation to educational programmes: How could you encourage a patient or friend to stop smoking? Would your programme include trying to scare...

Work through the following questions to develop skills in relation to educational programmes:

How could you encourage a patient or friend to stop smoking?

Would your programme include trying to scare them by using statistics on mortality rates and the development of cancer?

Do you think scare tactics work? Now think about government initiatives such as printing ‘SMOKING KILLS’ on the outside wrapper of every packet sold.

On reflection, do these initiatives work or do participants become ‘conditioned’ to them?