Article ID: 20210721142
Objective: To clarify the effects of tobacco education for nursing students in Japan, adopting different approaches. Methods: Web searches were conducted using the Ichushi and CiNii databases with “tobacco,” “smoking cessation,” and “nursing students” as the main keywords, and relevant research papers were selected based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: Fourteen papers were included. In all the included studies, the goal of education was to prevent smoking or promote smoking cessation among nursing students. Smoking cessation support was evaluated as the goal of education in one study. Increased knowledge of tobacco, increased motivation for smoking cessation support, and reduced tolerance to smoking immediately after education were reported as achieved educational effects in many studies. As for the maintenance of these effects, the motivation for smoking cessation support lasted for one month, and knowledge of tobacco was maintained for six months after education, based on active learning. Conclusions: The results did not clarify effective educational approaches; however, focusing on smoking prevention among nursing students, promoting smoking cessation among them, and improving their competencies to provide such support may be crucial when setting the goals of tobacco education in the future.
