Text messaging on cell help to quit smoking, says study
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Torpedoes are used to encourage smokers who want to quit the habit.
Studies show, however, that chances of returning to smoking are high.
Text messages on your phone can help smokers kick the habit, according to a recent survey in four countries. According to the survey, aid programs that include advice on SMS are twice as likely to work, making participants able to stop smoking for one year.
The survey, with four different tests, was held in New Zealand, England and Norway. In tests involving 2600 volunteers, the text messages were used to give advice and encourage daily smokers, and offer help when needed most.
If smokers feel an uncontrollable desire for nicotine, for example, they could send an SMS with the word "desire" to the program and receive advice on what to do in hours. "We know that quitting can be very difficult. Most people try several times before they succeed," he told Reuters researcher Robyn Whittaker, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Research
Two of the tests investigated aid programs that used text messaging only, and the researchers found that the service doubled the chances of stopping smoking in six weeks.
The other two studies focused on a program in Norway which used both SMS and e-mail and a unique site. The finding was that smokers who complete the program were twice as likely to report a withdrawal of up to one year.
The findings were publicads the "Cochrane Library", magazine of the worldwide organization of research Cochrane Collaboration. However, the results showed that the majority of smokers who participated in the studies could not stop time, regardless of the aid of messages on your phone.
One of the programs, the Txt2Quit operates in New Zealand with funding from the government and automatically sends two or three times a day just before the date fixed by the smoker to stop. The transmission continues for a month after the date.
A recent study with the same people who participated in the first year of the program, however, shows that only one third of the participants was not smoking for four weeks after the date. The number drops to 16% after 22 weeks.
Researcher Whittaker said it is estimated that only 5% of smokers manage to quit without help.
But text messages can be another tool to kick the habit and can also be effective for some people, because they can get help when it hits the desire for a cigarette.
Source: Reuters
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