New Zealand Study Reveals Video and Test Messages On Cell
Phones Can Help People Cease Smoking
Date: 15th November 2012
A study
conducted by New Zealand researchers led to the conclusion that text messages
and videos on quit smoking appearing on cell phones increase the chances of
quit smoking success by two times in comparison to the rate of success attained
by people without any such help. However, Robyn Whittaker, the leading author
of the study, makes it apparent that it cannot be said whether all text
messages are going to help in quit smoking.
During
the study, numerous cell phone messages were sent to the smokers on a daily
basis for a couple of weeks and all these messages focussed on providing
encouragement, tips on how to get rid of nicotine cravings and other quit
smoking resources.
As the
study came to a close, the researchers found out that in comparison to five
percent smokers who got rid of smoking addiction without any assistance from
cell phone videos or text messages, an astonishing number of 9 percent quit
smoking enthusiasts who received help from cell phone messages, successfully
abstained from cigarette smoking for a period of six months.
Robyn
Whittaker, the leading author of the study, states that cell phone texts and
videos can be considered as good and effective quit smoking services.
The
work of the researchers appeared in The Cochrane Library.
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