WHO recommends a combination of medication and behavioural interventions to help people quit smoking

From digital interventions to therapeutic treatments, WHO joins forces in your first guide to quitting smoking a whole arsenal of elements that together can help you quit smoking. Among the measures offered is a combination of drug addiction treatment with behavioral interventions, such as group or telephone counseling, which can be offered in health centers.

In the pharmacological arena, WHO has priority recommendation of varenicline as nicotine replacement therapy, as well as bupropion and cytisine.

Along with all this, the international organization also requires inclusion in anti-tobacco plans using digital technology on the phone and offering tools to enable the patient to engage in self-management.

The purpose of leadership is to serve helps 750 million smokers who want to quit, approximately 60% of the more than 1.25 billion smokers worldwide either do not want to quit or do not have effective means to quit.

WHO Secretary-General Tedro Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the new WHO publication “provides countries with effective tools to develop smoking cessation programmes,” which, according to the international organization’s representative, “will ease the global burden of tobacco smoking.”

“We must deeply appreciate the strength it takes and the suffering it takes for people and their loved ones to overcome this addiction,” he said.