A apparently the internet and the computer can help you stop smoking. This is the theory-Seung Kwon Myung, senior researcher at the University of California, then at the National Cancer Center in Goyang (South Korea) that led to a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine.
To arrive at these conclusions Myung, along with his colleagues reviewed the results of 22 studies published between 1989 and 2008. In total, the studies involving 29,549 people. Of these 16,050 were randomly assigned to a program based on the computer or the Web, and 13,499 have returned to the control group.
From data has shown that people who followed the program to your computer or on the internet have had the 1, 5 more likely to quit smoking than people assigned to the control group.
The abstinence rates were higher among the intervention groups with computers and Internet among the control groups after 6-10 months (11.7 percent vs. 7 percent) and after 12 months (9.9 percent vs. 5.7 percent). The effects of these computer-based intervention programs were similar to those based on consultation with an expert.
“Our results – the researchers said – have shown that there is sufficient evidence to support the use of the computer or the Web to stop smoking.”
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