Ученые из Лондонской школы гигиены и тропической медицины доказали, что смс-терапия txt2stop очень хорошо помогает бороться с табачной зависимостью...(The Lancet)
Суть терапии заключается в том, чтобы при помощи смс напоминать о решении бросить курить тому, кто твёрдо решил избавиться от этой вредной привычки.
В эксперименте, который проводила группа доктора Кэролайн Фри, участвовали 5 792 добровольца. Их разделили на две примерно одинаковые по количеству группы.
Одной половине испытуемых в течение трёх недель по пять раз в день делали мобильные напоминания о вреде курения. После этого в течение 26 недель проводилась поддерживающая терапия, когда количество антитабачных смс сократили до трёх штук в день.
Кроме того участники могли отправить смс с текстом «Хочу (курить)», и тогда на их телефон тут же приходили ободряющие сообщения, в которых, к примеру, предлагалось медленно попить воды, чтобы перебить желание закурить. Или же призыв вспомнить о том, как это вредно. Ранее было доказано, что острая тяга к сигарете длится примерно 5 минут, поэтому именно в такие моменты важно отвлечься.
Если же участник программы не смог сдержаться и закуривал, то он отправлял смс с текстом «[Проявил(-а)] слабость». В ответ же ему приходило напоминание о том, как много он уже сделал на пути избавления от табачной зависимости и т. д.
Вторая группа добровольцев — контрольная, получала смс общего характера.
В итоге, в первой группе добровольцев в два раз больше человек бросили курить, чем во второй. Показатель составил 9% против 4,5%.
TRANSLATION
Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have shown that SMS is very good therapy txt2stop help fight tobacco addiction ... (The Lancet)
The essence of therapy is to using SMS to remind the decision to quit the one who was determined to get rid of this habit.
In the experiment, which is conducted by a team doctor, Caroline Frey, 5792 was attended by a volunteer. They were divided into two roughly equal-size groups.
One half of the subjects in three weeks, five times a day do mobile reminders of the dangers of smoking. After that, 26 weeks maintenance therapy was carried out when the number of anti-smoking sms reduced to three pieces a day.
Furthermore the participants can send an SMS with the text "I want to (smoke)," and then on their phone immediately came to encouraging message, which, for example, offered a drink of water slowly to kill the desire to smoke. Or call to remember how it is harmful. Previously it was shown that the acute craving for a cigarette lasts about 5 minutes, so it is at such moments it is important to be distracted.
If the participant could not restrain himself and lit a cigarette, he sent an SMS with the text "[He proved (s)] weakness." In response, the same he had a reminder of how much he has done in the way of getting rid of tobacco dependence, etc.
The second group of volunteers - the control, received sms general.
As a result, the first group of volunteers in two times more people quit smoking than in the second. Figure was 9% versus 4.5%.
The essence of therapy is to using SMS to remind the decision to quit the one who was determined to get rid of this habit.
In the experiment, which is conducted by a team doctor, Caroline Frey, 5792 was attended by a volunteer. They were divided into two roughly equal-size groups.
One half of the subjects in three weeks, five times a day do mobile reminders of the dangers of smoking. After that, 26 weeks maintenance therapy was carried out when the number of anti-smoking sms reduced to three pieces a day.
Furthermore the participants can send an SMS with the text "I want to (smoke)," and then on their phone immediately came to encouraging message, which, for example, offered a drink of water slowly to kill the desire to smoke. Or call to remember how it is harmful. Previously it was shown that the acute craving for a cigarette lasts about 5 minutes, so it is at such moments it is important to be distracted.
If the participant could not restrain himself and lit a cigarette, he sent an SMS with the text "[He proved (s)] weakness." In response, the same he had a reminder of how much he has done in the way of getting rid of tobacco dependence, etc.
The second group of volunteers - the control, received sms general.
As a result, the first group of volunteers in two times more people quit smoking than in the second. Figure was 9% versus 4.5%.
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