Real Health

Most smokers get used to their vices without aids off again. Australian scientists are coming to this conclusion by the University of Sydney, following an assessment of hundreds of studies.

Health authorities should emphasize this fact, and more attention not so much on tobacco funding, or professional help, write Simon Chapman and colleagues in the U.S. journal "PLoS Medicine". In contrast, however, stood many anti-smoking campaigns, which made advertising of tobacco products for a replacement. The scientists believe the risk that smokers do not believe it without Hilfsmiget rid of the cigarette can ttel.

According to Chapman is let loose two thirds to three-quarters of the successful ex-smokers with no substitutes or psychological help from the cigarette. They heard either by one day to another, or reduced to slow the number of cigarettes. Those who have successfully stopped smoking judge, the weaning than less difficult than expected, the researchers write. They refer here to studies from the englischsprachigen space. For the current analysis of 511 studies, Chapman and colleagues from the years 2007 and 2008, moved into a.

The public will increasingly projects an image that nicotine replacement therapies are needed to successfully stop smoking. This "medicalization" is fed by the fact that the pharmaceutical industry a variety of finance studies for smoking cessation. In the United States would, for example a month three times as many information about stopping smoking from industryrie widespread as the government or NGOs.

Chapman and colleagues also cite a study of studies dealing with the success of tobacco substitutes. Thus wrote 51 percent of studies were sponsored by industry, tobacco replacement therapies in a decisive effect on smoking cessation. In contrast, it was in studies that were not paid by the industry, only 22 percent.