Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Motivation, Psychological Distress and Quality of Life Among Individuals With Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Control Trial

Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Motivation, Psychological Distress and Quality of Life Among Individuals With Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Control Trial

The main purpose of this research is to find out how brief cognitive behavior intervention influences the motivation level, psychological distress, and quality of life among people with smoking cessation. Another objective of this research is to examine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) among smoking people, another objective of this study is to investigate how Cognitive behavioral therapy helps to enhance the motivation level and quality of life and minimize psychological distress among people with smoking cessation

Participants:

This was basically pre and post study, initially 60 sixty research participants were recruited for pre-assessment, while 4 participants left due to some reasons (2 persons went out of the city for a job, 1 person met a severe road accident, and 1 person simply refused to participate in this study furthermore. Finally, 55 research participants were recruited for post-assessment. These research participants belong to different residential areas (rural/urban) have varied family systems (nuclear/joint) have different birth order, education, socioeconomic status, education, occupation, marital status, and distant smoking duration. The data were analyzed with the help of SPSS-23 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences - 23) descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and repeated measure ANOVA were used to understand the association and differences among pre and post-assessment of smoking personals.

Inclusion Criteria:

• If we talk about inclusion criteria, the individuals who were ready to change their lives were part of this study, furthermore, persons above 18 years and below 60 years old were recruited for this study, minimum duration for smoking personnel was not less than 6 months and not more than 5 years were part of this study. The individuals who have signed a written informed consent form were part of this study. Moreover, only males who were easily comprehended and understood the instructions of the researcher were recruited in this study. On the other hand, if we talk about the exclusion criteria of the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• the individuals who were reluctant to participate, or had any kind of psychophysiological illness prior to the study were excluded from this research. Further, the people below 18 and above 60 years were excluded. Furthermore, the research participants who had any kind of trauma during this study were excluded and those who refused to become further part of this study were excluded from this research study.