title: Healthier lifestyles: behaviour change.
abstract: Unhealthy lifestyle choices such as smoking and poor diet are significant and preventable causes of long-term conditions. Nurses are well placed to encourage and support patients to make healthy choices. Through good communication, collaboration and goal-setting, behaviour change is possible. This article discusses evidence for the best ways to initiate and sustain behaviour change.
authors.affiliation: Health Psychology Consultancy, Shefford, Bedfordshire.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Davies
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations