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Claire Burke Draucker1, Susan M Rawl, Emilee Vode
1Author Affiliations: Professor of Psychiatric Nursing (Dr Draucker), Professor (Dr Rawl), Project Manager (Ms Vode), and Nursing Baccalaureate Honors Student (Mr Fields and Mss Elkins, Morgan, Perez, and Straber), Indiana University School of Nursing; and Co-leader (Dr Rawl), Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, Indianapolis; and Associate Attending Behavioral Scientist and Associate Research Director (Dr Carter-Harris), Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Purpose/Aims:
Smoking-related stigma is manifested in the everyday social interactions of persons who smoke and can result in low self-esteem, diminished self-efficacy, and resistance to smoking cessation. The purpose of this study was to describe smoking-related social interactions as experienced by persons with a history of long-term smoking.
Design:
This study used a qualitative descriptive approach.
Methods:
This study is part of a larger study designed to identify factors that influence lung cancer screening participation. Data were drawn from 39 qualitative interviews with persons from the parent study. All descriptions about smoking-related social interactions found in the narratives were extracted, coded, categorized, and summarized with content analytic techniques.
Results:
Seven different types of social interactions were identified: (a) being looked down on for smoking, (b) being humiliated for smoking in public, (c) being banished while smoking, (d) being blamed for one's health problems, (e) not "really" being blamed for smoking, (f) being told "just quit," and (g) being worried about hurting others.
Conclusions:
Clinical nurse specialists should promote antismoking campaigns that are not stigmatizing, discuss health risks of smoking in a respectful manner, provide evidence-based cessation resources, improve communication with persons who smoke, and address stigma in programs to improve screening for smoking-related illnesses.
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