NURS FPX 4055 Assessment 4 Health Promotion Plan Presentation

Health Promotion Plan Presentation

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NURS-FPX4055

Capella University

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• Assessment 4 of NURS-FPX4055 is a health promotion plan presentation targeting tobacco cessation among African American males in Santa Rosa, California.

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Good morning/afternoon to all. Many thanks for taking part in this learning event. An African American male community health promotion strategy for tobacco dependence in Santa Rosa, California, will be discussed. The objective of this session will be to provide educational and supportive smoking cessation practices to combat the health consequences and reduce the prevalence of tobacco-related disease in at-risk groups.

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Introduction

Health promotion is one activity that empowers people and communities to make healthier life choices. Preventive strategies and health education are key components recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in combating chronic diseases and improving the quality of life (2025). For Americans, using tobacco is also one of the leading causes of cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, stroke, and various cancers in adult men and women. Research indicates that fewer smoking cessation resources and/or fewer preventative healthcare resources are available to minority populations or lower-income populations.

The emphasis of this presentation is to illustrate an evidence-based educational plan to target African American males ages 18-40 in Santa Rosa who smoke regularly in their social and/or community environments. The emphasis of this plan is to deliver tobacco cessation services, culturally appropriate education, and behavior change support, and to raise awareness of tobacco cessation services in the community.

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Scenario

Marco Myers is a 32-year-old black man who lives in a low-income neighborhood in Santa Rosa, Calif. Starting in grade 9, he started smoking menthol cigarettes when his neighbours’ friends introduced him to them. Over time, smoking became more frequent, particularly when there were economic or social stresses. Now Marco is employed part-time in a retail warehouse. Like many of his fellow employees, Marco smokes during breaks in his job. This smoking habit is telling Marco that it is ‘cool’ to smoke. He has tried to quit smoking a few times but failed due to the nicotine withdrawal symptoms, as well as irritability, anxiety, and pressure from family and friends to smoke.

Also, Marco is limited in his access to health care services, and he can’t afford smoking cessation services. Recently, he complained of shortness of breath during more strenuous physical activities and a chronic cough that was very intense. This is a situational case of stress and an expression of pressures from social networking and the underlying ill health attributes of many African American men living in low-resource settings. This case also illustrates the importance of easier-to-access smoking cessation services, particularly culturally-integrated tobacco cessation education programs.

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Evaluation of Educational Session Outcomes and Health Goals

Analysis of the change after a health-promoting initiative is crucial. The participants will be asked to fill out a survey pre and post the tobacco cessation intervention in order to discuss the initial learning objective and some resultant behavioral objectives. The survey will assess knowledge about the health impacts of smoking, the available cessation support, and coping strategies to deal with withdrawal symptoms.

Some surveys will be done after the cessation to address issues such as money, environment, cohabiting with a smoker, etc. Alanazi et al. (2025) stated that using both educational and community-based supportive interventions has been known to improve readiness to quit and utilize cessation interventions for almost all categories of high-risk smokers. It is assumed that participants will have knowledge about the health effects of smoking and will take a proactive role in smoking issues related activities.

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SMART Goal 1: To increase awareness regarding the consequences of tobacco use in the African Community of Santa Rosa

This initial SMART goal aims to reduce the negative effects of tobacco use among Santa Rosa’s African American male population. After this educational initiative, we aim to achieve that 90% participants and Marco Myers will be able to identify at least three health issues significantly related to smoking and tobacco usage. They will aim to solve the issue of smoking in the community through the use of different teaching aids, case studies, etc.

They will fill out a brief questionnaire to gauge their understanding of the health risks associated with smoking and how smokers perceive those risks. Awareness of these things becomes important since smoking tobacco and tobacco products pose a threat to the health of the community and are the most common cause of respiratory diseases. Tobacco and tobacco products are also known to cause cancer and stroke. One study has demonstrated that awareness of the dangers of smoking can encourage smokers to quit. (Derissen et al., 2024).

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SMART Goal 2: To encourage Santa Rosa African Americans to Attempt to Quit.

The second SMART goal of the model is to get the motivators of the information’s participants to advocate for the progressive steps to be taken in order to stop the smoking habit. Specifically, 5% of the respondents is estimated to quit or cut down on consumption in one month, following an information session. Marco Myers will share with practitioners potential personal exposures to work, financial/social issues with peers or co-workers and smoking. Participants will be made aware of other ways to relieve stress (smoke break or activities done physically).

By providing resources and referral materials on community resources and support programs during the information session, the goal is attainable. Literature retrieved showed that multiple quit-smoking attempts and behaviour support is a initial step in quitting smoking and has proven successful in decreasing smoking prevalence. This model is most likely to get Marco started in addressing factors that trigger his smoking and understanding the difficulties of quitting smoking (Onwuzo et al., 2024).

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SMART Goal 3: Increase the availability of services reported by African Americans in Santa Rosa.

The third SMART goal is to increase the awareness and use of Santa Rosa smoking cessation services. To make sure that at the end of the session, 100% can identify at least one tobacco cessation service. The workshop participants, including Marco Myers, will get a guide to resources available to those who are uninsured and/or have low income—like quit line services, counselling and behavioural support services through the community, quit apps, and health referral services.

Throughout the workshop, people will engage in discussion to identify various barriers to access to healthcare which may include but are not limited to services, transportation and financial barriers, and lack of knowledge regarding available services (Abbas & Cohen, 2026). The goal is to build awareness of the supportive cessation and healthcare services, as well as to build support for cessation and tobacco-related health improvement services.

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Planning for Positive Participant Response to Promote Program Success

I can imagine others challenging me and I’m anticipating them – including someone like Marco Myers – as part of this tobacco quit education program. One would expect that many of the individuals participating in the tobacco cessation education program will express a need and/or be interested in the tobacco harm reduction–cease to smoke program and be receptive. There is an opportunity for group discussions in the program. Use the group discussions to enhance the smoking behaviors of group members and/or their other behaviors, through the following processes: Talk about their group members’ smoking behaviors, and learn from them, to improve their own.

Discuss the smoking experience of another, and learn from it, to enhance one’s own behaviour. However, there may be some who may be resistant and unwilling to change their behaviours, due to the smoking addiction and normalisation in one social group. This will likely also involve gaps in their knowledge of addictions and gaps in their knowledge of withdrawal/cessation, which will need to be filled.

Withdrawal and cessation symptoms, social, work and financial problems may hinder adherence to previously set goals. Including: gradual learning, interactive learning, peer support, flexible learning and engagement accountability options (does the learner need to attend in person, virtually, or asynchronously? If in person, can they drive themselves or be chauffeured? Wishing these would help hold people’s attention and prevent the amount of secondhand smoke in the community.

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Evaluation of Educational Session Outcomes about Healthy People 2030 Objectives

This tobacco end-use service helps to align with the Healthy People 2030 objectives to reduce adult smoking and to increase access to preventive health care. It will aid in mitigating the adverse harmful effects of tobacco and improve access to health services. This is focused on the most vulnerable—African American men in Santa Rosa. Directly addresses access and quality health care, increases knowledge of cessation and provides resources for cessation, all relevant to the Leading Health Indicators. The program answers the questions on the social determinants of health by recognising the social, physical and economic environment that contributes to tobacco consumption.

Healthy People 2030 (2022) emphasized the importance of health equity and social inequities of individuals and communities like Marco Myers. More tightly aligning the HCI’s proposed strategies with Healthy People 2030 objectives will require more work in the area of primary healthcare and services in communities. Barrier-free counselling and community service in a culturally appropriate way will help. Better and stronger community partnerships and health services will ensure the program is community-based and focused on the community’s needs and the key public health priorities.

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Conclusion

With participants in this study being a mix of African American males with various levels of education, behavioral assistance and community involvement levels, the effect of the integrated health protection model would be best. Education about tobacco use and interventions to cease smoking need to be delivered in a culturally appropriate manner to spark knowledge and promote healthy lifestyles.

This model promotes positive lifestyle change, early intervention and cessation support through peer assistance to decrease and ultimately eliminate tobacco use and dependence. In order to improve the health of those in the community. Through activities tracking and health promotion services assessment, health practitioners will be able to provide better health-related services, since they can find the necessary gaps in interventions that are needed.

For Complete details and all assessments of this class: NURS FPX4055 Optimizing Population Health through Community Practice