Powerful Ways to Stop Smoking, Having Child

News Health Articles - Powerful Ways to Stop Smoking, Having Child. Quitting smoking is not easy because nicotine affects the brain have a big effect. But a study shows that parents with small children are most likely to quit smoking and pediatricians have an important role to help him.

According to a new study conducted by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, approximately 1 in 4 parents with small children are most likely to respond to a given intervention to help him quit smoking.



With the results of studies already published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers said pediatricians have an opportunity and a great opportunity to play an important role helping people to quit smoking.

"Because the doctor can take advantage of the vulnerability of children to educate children when the parents of a tobacco smoker, they can provide additional benefits to help smokers quit the group," explains Dr. Jonathan Winickoff, study author and professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as reported by Theatlantic, Monday (02/01/2012).

Dr. Winickoff and colleagues combined the results of 18 different studies of smoking cessation programs aimed at more than 7,000 parents. The study noted how people quit smoking, such as using drugs, counseling, or some combination of different approaches. In addition, the study also learn about interventions that obtained from the hospital, clinic or doctor's infant child.

The result, parents who received the intervention in the form of advice and counseling 2 times more likely to quit smoking than those who do not get it. And pediatric clinic is the best place to intervene to make parents stop smoking.

"Given the child's parents often visit doctors for routine check-ups and vaccinations, the pediatrician should provide an overview on the parents to stop smoking and help them find the resources to stop," said Dr. Winickoff.

Parents who quit smoking do not only get great benefits for their own health, but also on the health of their children. Another study, also published in the journal Pediatrics found that children whose parents smoked during pregnancy had thickening of the arterial wall, associated with high risk of cardiovascular disease such as heart disease and stroke.

"Smoking is associated with pneumonia, asthma, developmental disorders, school absenteeism, tooth decay, sudden infant death, hearing loss and various other diseases," concludes Dr. Winickoff.