Measures of Tobacco-Free Home Promotion

Abstract

World Health Organization emphasizes promotion of tobacco-free home because it not only re­duces the chance of being exposed to tobacco smoke of family members but it also encourages the family members who smoked to decrease cigarettes and stop smoking successfully. Furthermore, it also prevents youths in the house from not trying cigarettes. The aim of this article was to review the effectiveness measures of Tobacco-Free Home Promotion. The data were gathered from an electronic database pro­duced and publicized from both domestic and foreign countries. The result concluded that the measure of tobacco-free home is attempt to enable the family members to quit smoking or to smoke in specified areas to protects other members in the house not to be exposed to tobacco smoke. Most measures are mixed with more than one activity including face-to-face counseling, self-help materials, supporting via phone call, and the measurement of nicotine receipt to give feedback to family members to perceive the issue together. Additionally, there will be important spaces for implementing measures such as school, community, community health center and hospital along with well-baby clinic and the smoke-free home measure will be assessed by directly measuring nicotine level in bodies of family members and indirectly measuring from self-reporting about possibility to be exposed to tobacco smoke of family members.