[Japan Medical Association, Public Interest Incorporated Association] The Japan Medical Association has created the 2024 edition of the booklet “Smoking is Love” to remind people of the importance of quitting smoking.
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The Japan Medical Association has created the 2024 edition of the booklet “Smoking is Love” to remind people of the importance of quitting smoking.
The Japan Medical Association has recently created the 2024 edition of its pamphlet “Quiting Smoking is Love” for the public.
To protect people’s lives and health, the Japan Medical Association has carried out various activities such as holding symposiums and producing videos in order to widely appeal to the public to quit smoking. As part of this effort, we created the first edition of “Has Love” in 2017.
Since then, it has been revised twice, and it is not only distributed by many medical institutions, but also used by many companies for smoking cessation education for their employees.
The 2024 version completed this time is
* ・Quiting smoking is love for your body*
“Smoking cigarettes causes various health problems!”
* ・Quiting smoking is a sign of love for those around you*
“Just breathing in someone’s cigarette smoke puts you at the same risk as a smoker.”
* ・Quiting smoking is love for the future*
“Are new cigarettes okay? It’s a misunderstanding.”
* ・Quiting smoking is love for society*
“Is medical expenses the only cause of tobacco-related losses?” “Smoking education for minors has also begun.”
* ・Smoking cessation medicine*
“Smoking that you can’t quit even if you want to is a disease called nicotine dependence.”
* ・Let’s start quitting smoking! *
“You can quit smoking relatively easily and more reliably at a medical institution by using a smoking cessation outpatient clinic.” “Successfully quit smoking with both medicine and counseling” * ・Smoking cessation measures*
“Aiming for a healthy future”
– It is made up of.
* Enhanced content on the harms of new cigarettes *
In particular, this article takes into consideration the fact that in recent years, an increasing number of young people are using new types of cigarettes, mainly heated tobacco and electronic cigarettes, due to the misconception that they are harmless because they do not emit smoke. In order to make people aware of this, we added a new item, “Smoking is love for the future,” increased the number of pages, enriched the content, and reviewed the entire content, incorporating the latest knowledge into the previous content. I’m here.
*Also available on the Japan Medical Association website*
It is said that starting to smoke at a young age not only increases the risk of cancer and ischemic heart disease, but also that smoking becomes a habit and many people switch from smoking new types of cigarettes to smoking cigarettes. Masu. Regarding the booklets, we are giving away 10 copies per facility to member medical institutions that request it, and the same content is also posted on the Japan Medical Association website, as well as PDF data. We hope that you will read it and make use of it widely in your efforts to quit smoking. “Quiting smoking is love” posted on the Japan Medical Association website
Contact: Japan Medical Association Health and Medical Division 2, Public Relations Division TEL 03-3946-2121 (Main)
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