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Qingdao, Shandong: the scope for the smoking cessation into health insurance - Medicare - the pharma

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Public places in China in January 2011 will lead to extensive information to ban smoking hot. Although smoking is harmful to health was already a consensus emerging related to smoking cessation products. But the reporter that, as the high cost of smoking, smokers quit smoking for hospital out-patient awareness is also low, resulting in smoking cessation results are poor. The Qingdao Municipal Disease Prevention and Control Center official said, the center is coordinating related issues, the scope for the smoking cessation into health insurance.

13 morning, in Nanjing Road, a pharmacy within the country, the staff recommendation is for the public entitled "Cutting Niklan tartrate tablets" of smoking cessation products, but after hearing the price, leaving one of the people "to think" after then they are gone. According to clerk introduced quit smoking drug that is newly introduced products store, you must eat with another drug with two kinds of drugs require a total of more than 300 yuan. Dunhua way a pharmacy staff told reporters, too much confusion as smoking cessation products, recently launched a number of smoking cessation products market is facing delisting, and pharmacies within the smoking cessation products also took turns to change. Interview, many pharmacies have said that sales had spray, tablet, electronic cigarette, quit smoking patches and other kinds of products, but because consumers do not buy it the cost is too high, too many drug stores no longer purchasing related products.

's Survey found, pharmacies and shopping centers currently in sales of drug-based smoking cessation products, and is taken with two or more drugs, more than 300 price? 600 range. According to the staff of pharmacies, drug To successfully quit smoking at least take two courses, a total of 24 weeks, and a box of medicine can only take 2 weeks. In other words, you want to quit to spend at least 3,600 yuan to 7,200 yuan, whereas that for smokers in general terms is tantamount to astronomical.

News from Qingdao, CDC learned that, at present 401, seven doctors, municipal, smoking cessation clinic with three doctors and so on, but set up more than two years, the smoking cessation clinic who is not in the popular imagination. And other out-patient compared with eight hours of work time, smoking cessation clinic 16:30 will work, people quit smoking is "asking more, less ring", in addition to high costs, the main city, the need for public awareness on smoking cessation is not high.

"Some people can master the willpower to quit by following method, but some people really addictive, this situation must rely on aid to quit drugs." Qingdao CDC's director, said Liu Hui, MD, Hospital smoking cessation clinic The cost is not low, so went to therapy are economic conditions are good, higher education crowd. "To solve the problem of high cost of smoking cessation, quit smoking would have to include health insurance," said Liu Hui, the current contact center is working with relevant departments, efforts to lower the cost of smokers to quit.

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