Predictors for smoking cessation：a study of compliance of cigarette smokers treated with acupuncture in Hong Kong

VernacularTitle:香港地区针灸戒烟受试者的依从性影响因素分析?
Author: Zhao LIU ¹ ; Jinsheng YANG ; Min CHEN ; Lingling HUANG ; Xiuqing HE ; Guanyi WU ; Shu-Lan QI ; Yuan WU ; Yingying WANG
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1. 中国中医科学院针灸研究所北京100700
Keywords: acupuncture; smoking cessation; compliance; nicotine dependence; Hong Kong
From: Journal of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2016;(1):82-88
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To explore the predictors for the compliance of cigarette smokers who were acu-punctured for stopping smoking in Hong Kong. Methods Motivated daily smoking quitters were recrui-ted from the project of Plot Study of Acupuncture for Smoking Cessation conducted by Institute of Acu-puncture and Moxibustion of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Hong Kong Pok Oi Hospi-tal from August, 2010 to June, 2015. After comparing the subjects dropped out of the study with the ones completed it, the data of demography, smoking background, desire of smoking cessation were obtained.