smoking cessation at Fakih Hospital
Dr. Mazen Fakih, Director General of Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital, inaugurated the first private anti-smoking clinic in the hospital, in the presence of a number of officials, doctors and specialists in addition to a group of media professionals.
This step comes within the framework of the existing coordination between health care institutions in the government and private sectors in order to unify efforts to address this dangerous scourge and bring about the required integration to provide all means and means that would help smokers to quit smoking and thus enjoy a better life without smoking.
Dr. Muhammad Majid Barzanji, consultant and head of the chest diseases and allergies department at Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital, said that recent scientific research has confirmed that smoking is one of the main causes associated with the occurrence of death in various parts of the world, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Barzanji indicated that according to the reports of the World Health Organization, smoking has been classified as an addiction that requires treatment and medical assistance, indicating that the cost of treating diseases resulting from smoking is very high and drains much of the public resources and budgets allocated to health care, which increases the economic burden on the medical authorities and the state in a way. Public.
Dr. Barzanji added that according to the latest statistics, the number of people wanting to quit smoking for various reasons is increasing, especially with the availability of treatment methods and programs that have proven successful in helping many advanced cases, the most dependent on nicotine, which opens the door to hope for smokers and contributes to enhancing their confidence. The possibility of getting rid of this addiction accompanied by severe withdrawal symptoms if the desire and means of treatment based on reliable scientific and medical foundations are available.
Dr. Rabia Khatoon, a consultant family medicine consultant, confirmed that smoking falls within the cycle of habit-related addiction and not as some believe that it is just a habit that the smoker can get rid of whenever he wants due to its transformation into a priority in the smoker''s life with the rapid emergence of withdrawal symptoms when trying to quit such as tension, nervousness and irritability Headache, irregular sleep, frustration, general sense of dissatisfaction, isolation, depression and finally the desire to return to smoking.
