【英语文章】发短信戒烟，你听过没有？

【英语文章】发短信戒烟，你听过没有？
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.


译文：
发表于周二PLOS Medicine杂志的研究显示，在接受为期12周的基于手机的干预的吸烟者中，6.5％的人在研究结束时戒烟。
 
来自中南大学湘雅二医院的研究人员表示，与现场治疗相比，干预措施的覆盖面更广，可行性更高。
 
该研究表明，它具有改善人口健康的巨大潜力，应考虑在中国大规模使用。
 
他们于2016年8月至2017年5月在中国进行了一项随机对照试验，招募了1,369名成年吸烟者。参与者被随机分配到由高频或低频消息组成的12周干预，或者接收与退出无关的文本消息的对照组。
 
该研究表明，短信旨在提高戒烟的自我效能和行为能力。
 
十二周后，高频组中6.5％的人戒烟，而低频组中有6％的人戒烟。对照组中1.9％的人戒烟。

 中国是吸烟者全球流行率最高的国家，占全球卷烟消费总量的40％以上。

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