Counseling Clients to Quit and Facilitating Groups
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing Techniques
Reflective Listening
Recovery-Oriented Therapies
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Social Support
Behavior Modification
Relapse Prevention / Management
Components of Group Work
What Makes a Good Group Facilitator?
Intervening
Types of Interventions
Providing Constructive Feedback Tips
Open and Closed-ended Questions
Working with Client Behavior
 

Social support is an effective component of a comprehensive program for tobacco dependence. The increase of social support in the tobacco user’s environment can increase long-term cessation by 50 percent (Surgeon General’s Report, 2000). Individuals participating in treatment should be introduced to and offered both intra-treatment social support and extra-treatment social support. Increasing the unity among members of tobacco cessation groups can enhance both types of social support
(Fiore et al., 2000).
 

Elements of intra-treatment supportive interventions (within treatment setting)

• Treatment provider offers encouragement and belief in user’s ability to quit
   
• Provider communicates caring and concern, is open to individual’s expression of fears of quitting and ambivalent feelings
   
• Tobacco user is encouraged to talk about the quitting process (reasons to quit, previous successes, difficulties encountered)
   
• The use of intra-treatment social support yields a 14.4% abstinence rate
  (Fiore et al., 2000)

Elements of extra-treatment supportive interventions (outside treatment setting)

• Tobacco user is offered skills training in soliciting support from others (family, friends, co-workers), is helped in establishing a smoke-free home
   
• Information on community resources (helplines) is provided
   
• Tobacco user establishes a buddy system (letters, contracts, tip sheets) (www.lungusa.org)
   
• Extra-treatment social support shows a 16.2% abstinence rate
  (Fiore et al., 2000).