Abstract:
Objective To assess the effect of simple mental intervention and mental plus telephone intervention on abstinence of smoking in male smokers.
Methods Five hundred and four smokers who visited our smoking abstinence clinic for abstinence of smoking from October 2008 to December 2012 were divided into simple mental intervention group and mental plus telephone intervention group.Smokers in simple mental intervention group received face-to-face mental intervention by telephone follow-up in months 1,3 and 6 for 5 min each time.Those in mental plus telephone intervention group received face-to-face mental intervention by telephone follow-up at week 1 and in months 1,3 and 6 for 20 min each time,followed by intensified intervention.The main assessment indications were the 7-day abstient rates during the follow-up periods of 1,3 and 6 months and the 1 month abstinent rate of smoking during the follow-up periods of 1,3 and 6 months.
Results Of the 504 smokers,383 were followed up for 6 months.The 1 month abstinent rate of smoking was 32.2% and 18.0%,respectively,in simple mental intervention group and mental plus telephone intervention group.
Conclusion The effect of mental plus telephone intervention is better than that of simple mental intervention on abstinence of smoking.