Must be 5 pages long, APA 6th edition format, must have 6 scholarly references dated within the last 5 years. Should be a change paper, for this one you would want to look at the percentage of patients in the population that you serve that smoke, roughly 48%. Briefly discuss the health concerns that justify the creation of a smoking cessation program within the facility. Determine what is currently done, in my facility it is marking on the EHR that they are smokers and respiratory therapy gives them a handout). Look at the literature that supports the best way to achieve smoking cessation and then show how this can be done without additional cost or time to the staff that you would assign to this job. Use the data on what is currently done, but you would want to set up a measurement to determine the effectiveness of your program–some suggestions will be found in the literature, but you might consider calling them at one month, 6 months and a year for follow up or different intervals. Also, remember that your program can begin in the acute care environment but then patient could be invited back to the facility for socialization with others trying to quit & programs for support