A novel motivation tool to encourage smoking cessation in Iraq

Abstract

Introduction: Smoking is one of the most important causes of diseases and affects the health of the body in general and the health of the lungs in particular. There is a significant increase in smoking rates among Iraqi adults after 2003 until now. The term lung age is a term that can be inferred from it about the extent to which the lungs are affected by causes of diseases such as smoking. Objective: To create knowledge about the importance of using lung age concept in order to encourage smoking cessation.

Methodology: A comprehensive search was conducted for many studies on several sites including Google Scholar, Scopus and PubMed in order to find out whether using the concept lung age can encourage smoking cessation or not.

Results: Studies have shown that using lung age concept can contribute to motivating smokers to quit smoking twice compared with non-motivated smokers.

Conclusion: Smokers knowing their lung age can motivate them to quit smoking and it is important to use this term in developing countries after conducting a spirometer test