Cunningham John A, Selby Peter L
Social, Prevention and Health Policy Research Department, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON.
CMAJ. 2008 Jul 15;179(2):145-6. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.071241.
Public health initiatives to distribute nicotine replacement therapy free of charge as a means of promoting smoking cessation are ongoing. Are there enough smokers interested in using nicotine replacement therapy to have a substantial impact on the prevalence of smoking if this aid were distributed free to all interested smokers? We conducted a telephone survey of 825 randomly selected daily smokers aged 18 years or older who had smoked at least 10 cigarettes per day at some point in their lives. Overall, 58.9% of the respondents said they would be interested in nicotine replacement therapy if it were offered for free. Of those interested, almost all (93.8%) said that they would use the nicotine replacement therapy to help them quit for good. There were differences in the levels of interest: smokers who intended to quit were more interested in using the nicotine replacement therapy than those who planned to reduce or maintain their smoking.
正在开展公共卫生倡议，免费发放尼古丁替代疗法，以此作为促进戒烟的一种手段。如果将这种援助免费提供给所有感兴趣的吸烟者，是否有足够多对使用尼古丁替代疗法感兴趣的吸烟者，从而对吸烟率产生重大影响呢？我们对825名随机挑选的18岁及以上的每日吸烟者进行了电话调查，这些吸烟者在其生命中的某个时刻每天至少吸10支烟。总体而言，58.9%的受访者表示，如果免费提供尼古丁替代疗法，他们会感兴趣。在那些感兴趣的人中，几乎所有人（93.8%）表示他们会使用尼古丁替代疗法来帮助自己彻底戒烟。在感兴趣程度上存在差异：打算戒烟的吸烟者比计划减少或维持吸烟量的吸烟者对使用尼古丁替代疗法更感兴趣。
