Quitting smoking is not an easy thing to do. But smokers with other addictions or have mental disorders that accompany the more successful will stop if it is followed by counseling by physicians.
The survey found about 4 out of 10 smokers have other addictions like alcohol and drugs and mental disorders. These conditions make cigarette addicts have a very big challenge to get away from dependency.
But the new study found patients with other addictions can be 5 times more likely to quit smoking if he received counseling from physicians who provide primary care.
"Helping them get away from the habit of smoking not only improve health but also reduce health care costs associated with smoking," said Dr. Michael Ong of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, as quoted from HealthDay, Saturday (27 / 8 / 2011).
Dr. Ong said it is most effective when primary care physicians in providing assistance to patients who want to quit smoking. But counseling is done should be continuous, because if just once it would be very easy for smokers resumed smoking.
"We showed that smoking counseling can be an effective way to stop smoking, physicians should only take one thing at a time like this which should be prioritized first," says Dr Ong.
In this study Dr. Ong and his team saw the success rate among nearly 1,400 smokers trying to quit. The results obtained about 6 percent of smokers with impaired kormobid (another addiction or mental illness that accompanies) koseling successfully quit without assistance, and about 10.5 percent of smokers can quit without another addiction without the help of counseling.
But a far different results obtained, approximately 31 percent of smokers with the disorder who received counseling kormobid successfully quit, while smokers who are not accompanied by disruption kormobid about 35 percent successfully quit.
The results of this study was published on August 23, 2011 in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research.