A Community Programme to Stimulate Tobacco Quitting

Abstract

A community program to stimulate smoking cessation developped on the 1988 World No-smoking Day in the city of Barcelona (Spain) is presented. Participants in this program could make a written commitment to quit, and received support materials by mail. The results are evaluated in a sample of participants: 69 % declare having quit on the specified date, and 29 % do not smoke after one year