“Smoking can lead to tobacco dependence. Among the more than 300 million smokers in my country, about 180 million are addicts. Similar to hypertension and diabetes, tobacco dependence is also a chronic disease that requires treatment.” May On the 27th, at the 2022 World No Tobacco Day “Tobacco Threats Environment: Promoting Smoking Cessation, Doctors First” theme event jointly organized by China-Japan Friendship Hospital National Respiratory Medicine Center, China Health Education Center, and Health News Agency, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese Wang Chen, president of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, said.
The Lancet Regional Health-West Pacific Region5 “Prevalence and Influencing Factors of Tobacco Dependence in China: Based on the 2018 National Residents’ Health Literacy Monitoring Survey Results” was published online on May 4. This article was completed by the team of Academician Wang Chen and Professor Xiao Dan from the National Center for Respiratory Medicine of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, the WHO Collaborating Center for Smoking Cessation and Respiratory Disease Prevention, and the team of Researcher Li Yinghua from the China Health Education Center. For the first time, the study has clarified the prevalence and risk factors of tobacco dependence in my country, which has a positive effect on tobacco control in my country, especially in clinical smoking cessation work.
Wang Chen said that this study covers a representative sample of more than 80,000 people, using a stratified multi-stage random sampling method , assessed the prevalence and risk factors of tobacco dependence in my country, and made up for the lack of research evidence in this field in my country and the world.
“There are more than 300 million smokers in my country, nearly half of them are addicted to tobacco, and there is no significant difference between men and women.” Wang Chen said that based on this, it is estimated that in 2018, there were about 183.5 million smokers in my country suffering from tobacco dependence, of which 177.5 million were men.
“Long-term smoking can lead to addiction, which is clinically called tobacco dependence. Tobacco dependence is an important cause of persistent smoking in smokers.” One of the corresponding authors of the article, Professor Xiao Dan, Executive Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Smoking Cessation and Respiratory Disease Prevention, said that although most people in my country are aware of the harm of smoking, they usually only regard smoking as a problem. As a bad behavior habit, there is a lack of in-depth understanding of the highly addictive nature of smoking.
As early as 2019, the team of Wang Chen and Xiao Dan proposed in the British Medical Journal that “tobacco dependence should be regarded as a deadly non-communicable diseases”, and the results of this study provide scientific and solid data support for this initiative. In this regard, researcher Li Yinghua of the China Health Education Center believes that the publicity of “tobacco dependence is a chronic disease that needs treatment” should be strengthened, the social awareness of tobacco dependence should be raised, and the public should be made aware of hypertension and diabetes. Tobacco dependence.
The results of this study show that smokers with tobacco dependence are less likely to succeed in quitting smoking by their own efforts and need to rely on professional Smoking cessation treatment. Xiao Dan said that smokers who have tried to quit smoking but failed many times should realize that they may suffer from tobacco dependence and must go to the smoking cessation clinic to receive professional treatment.
Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, many smokers are unable to go to smoking cessation clinics. In this regard, Xiao Dan introduced that mobile smoking cessation technology can easily and effectively help smokers quit smoking. Friends of smokers can obtain personalized smoking cessation help through the WeChat public account of the mobile smoking cessation project “Online Smoking Cessation”.
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