The 2 most significant factors which need to be improved in this health plan are smoking and eating a lot of fat in your diet. When asked, you told me that on average you smoke 30 cigarettes per day, and your eating diary for the week in the questionnaire indicates that fat and salt levels are over the recommended limit. To help you to become motivated, you should look at the NHS’s “smoking” leaflet. This will help motivate you as it shows you the effects of smoking, to deter you from actually smoking.
It also gives quotes and testimonials of people who have used the service to show you that the process works and how it has helped other people. This will encourage you to persevere. Along with this, the leaflet uses positive language and tells how “stopping smoking is the single most helpful thing you can do to improve your health”. This is very good to urge you to stop smoking. It shows you how much money you can save per year as an incentive to stop, and tells how easy it is to quit.
Not only does it explain the benefits, it gives simple and easy ways of stopping, from calling their help lines, to visiting an actual clinic, and tells how they have trained advisers to make you feel more comfortable. Positive pictures and healthy looking people are used in relevant sections to portray how much healthier people are when they stop smoking. The service is free, and this will motivate you further to pursue the goal.
The two other methods of motivation are the “big quit” website and “you are what you eat programme”. The big quit is a government run campaign to stop people smoking. It shows you all the harmful effects that smoking causes and this would deter anybody from smoking. It also gives you things to do if you’re feeling the cravings while stopping.
Along with this, they send you ‘motivational emails’ every day to show you what you have achieved in terms of health e.g. how you’re less likely to catch cancer after a day. Along with these, it has many other small incentives to motivate you. In the “you are what you eat” programme, the presenter will show you which foods to eat and how they can be delicious and look nice. She will also show you the harmful effects of eating unhealthily. This will motivate you and remind you of the disgusting truths of what is inside fatty foods. This is an excellent programme to watch.