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Identifying patterns in partnership with students who want to quit smoking
Emiko Endo1, Mari Takaki, Natsuko Nitta
1Faculty of Nursing, Musashino University, 3-40-10, Sekimae,Musashino, 180-0014, Japan. emi_endo@musashino-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Students who wanted to quit smoking were invited to partner with teachers/support persons to identify the meaningful patterns of their lives. The theoretical framework guiding the study was Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness from the perspective of the unitary-transformative paradigm in nursing science. Student participants shared the meaningful relationships and events of their lives with their supportive partners, and together they reflected on the patterns of the students' lives. Two similarities among the individual patterns were found: a difficult experience in interpersonal relationships at some point in their lives and the initiation of smoking in their search for connectedness with friends. In the dialectic process, students experienced insight regarding their evolving patterns and made transformative changes in their lives, reflecting varying levels of tobacco control.
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