It is good news for smokers planning to quit. According to a recent report, text messaging and email are linked to smoking cessation.
Researchers analysed data from 4 trials in the UK, New Zealand and Norway.
The interventions were:
- Text messages with advice and encouragement sent regularly to smokers' mobile phone
- Text messages to the phone in conjunction with email
They found that mobile phone intervention appeared to increase the prevelance of self reported smoking abstinence at 4 weeks after cessation.
They also found an increase in long term self reported quitting with the Internet and text messsages. data was taken from the same trials.
More studies are planned on the long term effects of mobile phones
It has also been proven that help from family and friends is effective in bringing about that change.
If you know of someone whose goal is to quit, give them one of these instead of a pair of shoes, for example. Give them that gift of health. Read the report here
This is an example of text messaging available in both a US & a UK version.
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