Michał considers these in relation to his lifestyle and points to picture of bottle on chart. He explains he has never smoked so that is not relevant to him. His main worry is that his alcohol intake has increased and although his weight is ok he is comfort eating due to boredom. He also wants to discuss air travel post operation.
The CR professional discusses these in relation to his readiness to change and illustrates this to Michał.
Alcohol: He begins by asking Michał to talk him through a typical day. This is a useful day to gain an insight into the person routine relating to alcohol in this case. They discuss in more depth the warfarin interactions he should consider:
- It is dangerous to binge drink or get drunk while taking warfarin. Doing this may increase the effect of warfarin and so increase the risk of bleeding.
- He shouldn’t drink more than three units of alcohol a day. It is not safe to save up units to have on one day.
Michał tells Richard he feels much less anxious after chatting about this. He tells him he is going to read more about this and discuss this again after that.
Readiness ruler – alcohol
- Important = 7
- Confident = 4
Pulse point
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Page last reviewed: 27 Jul 2020
