【英語文章】發短信戒煙，你聽過沒有？
The study published in the journal PLOS Medicine on Tuesday showed that among smokers who received a 12-week-long mobile phone-based intervention, 6.5 percent stopped smoking by the end of the study.
 
The researchers from the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in China said the intervention could have greater reach and higher feasibility than in-person treatments.
 
It has great potential to improve population health and should be considered for large-scale use in China, according to the study.
 
They conducted a randomized controlled trial across China from August 2016 to May 2017, recruiting 1,369 adult smokers. Participants were randomly assigned to a 12-week intervention consisting of either high-frequency or low-frequency messaging, or to a control group that received text messages unrelated to quitting.
 
The text messages were aimed at improving self-efficacy and behavioral capability for quitting, according to the study.
 
Twelve weeks later, 6.5 percent of them in the high-frequency group had quit smoking, while 6 percent in the low-frequency group had also given up the habit. 1.9 percent of people in the control group quit smoking.
 
China has the highest global prevalence of cigarette smokers, accounting for more than 40 percent of the total cigarette consumption in the world.


譯文：
發表于周二PLOS Medicine雜志的研究顯示，在接受為期12周的基于手機的干預的吸煙者中，6.5％的人在研究結束時戒煙。
 
來自中南大學湘雅二醫院的研究人員表示，與現場治療相比，干預措施的覆蓋面更廣，可行性更高。
 
該研究表明，它具有改善人口健康的巨大潛力，應考慮在中國大規模使用。
 
他們于2016年8月至2017年5月在中國進行了一項隨機對照試驗，招募了1,369名成年吸煙者。參與者被隨機分配到由高頻或低頻消息組成的12周干預，或者接收與退出無關的文本消息的對照組。
 
該研究表明，短信旨在提高戒煙的自我效能和行為能力。
 
十二周后，高頻組中6.5％的人戒煙，而低頻組中有6％的人戒煙。對照組中1.9％的人戒煙。

 中國是吸煙者全球流行率最高的國家，占全球卷煙消費總量的40％以上。

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