NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme
NCSCT Standard Treatment Programme
Last activity on January 15, 2025
Behaviour Change Techniques
- What you say and do during the intervention will impact on a smoker’s chances of quitting. This is why delivering an effective intervention is so important.
- Evidence-based behaviour change techniques (BCTs) have been established to support smoking cessation.
- While there are more than 71 BCTs, there are 16 individual BCTs for which we have good grounds to believe are the most effective (Michie 2011).
Clinical and Academic consensus led us to focus interventions around the following areas
- Stop Smoking Treatment/Medications
Make sure patients have a realistic expectation of stop smoking medications.
Support patients so they use these medications properly and that they are aware of any potential side effects.
- Build rapport
Building rapport is central to everything you do to support a client to stop smoking.
Building and maintaining rapport is the means by which BCTs are delivered.
Building rapport is the ‘art’ to the science of the BCTs and good rapport facilitates successful delivery of evidence-based interventions.
- CO Monitoring
- Medications
Making sure patients have a realistic expectation of stop smoking medications, use these medications properly and that they are aware of any potential side effects.
- "Not a puff rule"
Stressing the importance of the ‘not a puff’ rule and gaining commitment from the patient.
- Eliciting client commitment
Obtaining client commitment to the support programme, the plan of action and to attend agreed appointments.
- Addressing barriers, smoking cues & coping with withdrawals
Helping patients to change their routine to avoid smoking and making sure they know what to expect in terms of cravings and withdrawal symptoms.