Smokers’ Health

Smoking cessation
The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, every year killing more than 8 million people worldwide. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.1.
According to the Statistics Sweden (SCB), 1 out of 10 women and men aged 16 and older smoke every day2.
The scale of the human and economic impact that tobacco imposes is preventable - in 2003, WHO Member States unanimously adopted the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). “WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2019: Offer help to quit tobacco use” is the seventh in a series of WHO reports that tracks the status of the tobacco epidemic and interventions to combat it.3

Smoking cessation is difficult: Patients are fighting both physical and psychological addiction
Nicotine addiction is a biochemical process which results in an increase in nicotine receptors4. Quitting has both physical and psychological components5. Physical withdrawal symptoms are the result of the body reacting to the absence of nicotine; psychological issues are the result of giving up the habit5.
Willpower alone is considered to be the least effective method of smoking cessation11

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