Goheung-gun Operates Mobile Smoking Cessation Clinic Visiting Office Workers

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Goheung County (Governor Song Gwi-geun) announced on the 2nd that it started operating a mobile smoking cessation clinic that directly visits office workers from the 26th of last month to strengthen community smoking cessation support services.

The Goheung County Public Health Center operates this service annually targeting office workers who face significant time and geographical constraints and find it difficult to quit smoking on their own. This year, it began with employees of the Goheung Fisheries Cooperative Nokdong Branch, where the Goheung Fisheries Cooperative Fresh Sashimi Center is located, as well as brokers and merchants at the Fresh Sashimi Center, and plans to gradually diversify the target groups to include foreign workers and people with disabilities.

The mobile smoking cessation clinic operates in a 1:1 counseling format with smoking cessation counselors while adhering to quarantine rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It is systematically conducted through blood pressure and carbon monoxide measurements, education on the effects of smoking on the human body, provision of smoking cessation reinforcement supplies, and nicotine replacement therapies.

Among last year's smoking cessation clinic registrants, 56 office workers registered for the mobile smoking cessation clinic, and 28 succeeded, resulting in a success rate of 51%.

A county official said, “We hope everyone succeeds in quitting smoking by using the smoking cessation clinic operated by the public health center, and if you have the will to quit smoking, please feel free to contact the public health center smoking cessation clinic at any time.”

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