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Date Published: 13/01/2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v509i2.1800
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Vol. 509 No. 2 (2021)
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Thái Hà, T. ., & Hữu Minh, Đào . (2022). STUDY THE EFFICIENCY OF SMOKING CESSATION THROUGH THE COMBINATION BETWEEN AURICULAR POINT ACUPRESSURE, BREATHING PRACTICE METHOD AND MEDICAL ADVICE. Vietnam Medical Journal, 509(2). https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v509i2.1800

STUDY THE EFFICIENCY OF SMOKING CESSATION THROUGH THE COMBINATION BETWEEN AURICULAR POINT ACUPRESSURE, BREATHING PRACTICE METHOD AND MEDICAL ADVICE

Trần Thái Hà1,, Đào Hữu Minh1
1 National Hospital of Traditional Medicine

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Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of auricular point acupressure, breathing practice method and giving medical advice in smoking cessation treatment and monitor methods’ adverse reaction. Subjects and Methods: Perspective clinical trial, comparisons of before and after treatment.  There are 140 patients in the 28-day treatment. At the end of the course, we continue to monitor and observe the patient for 1 more month, and evaluating the effectiveness of the method for the next 2 months. Results: The very good rate of smoking cessation cases were 57,2%, 16.4% of these were good and 26.4% of these were not effective. Results after 2 months of treatment did not change with the rate of 73.6% of people who have no longer smoked and the rate of these was 72.1% after 3 months of treatment. Conclusions: Auricular point acupressure, breathing practice method and medical advice is effective in smoking cessation, improving symptoms of withdrawal syndrome (shortness, irritability, insomnia, cravings ...) and decreased levels of CO in the breath of patients after treatment.

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Smoking cessation, withdrawal syndrome, auricular point acupressure, breathing pratice method, medical advise

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