Doctors suggest smokers receive counseling
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Shanghai doctors are encouraging local smokers to seek help at city hospitals' anti-smoking departments, reported the Xinmin Evening News.
As of 2016, more than 23 percent of Shanghai residents between 15 and 69 are habitual smokers. Over the past year, less than 30 percent attempted to quit smoking.
Doctors say that quitting smoking has less than a 5 percent success rate when attempted alone, while those who receive medical advice have a 30 percent success rate.
Most patients visiting anti-smoking clinics are preparing to get pregnant or have been diagnosed with a serious disease.
Doctors say the most effective way to quit smoking is to combine medicine, psychosocial counseling and behavioral therapy.