{"id":1027919,"name":"Support to help quit smoking","unit":"","createdAt":"2025-05-08T16:42:56.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-04T08:32:19.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2007-2022","datasetId":7054,"shortUnit":"","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"tobacco_help_quit","catalogPath":"grapher/who/2025-04-07/gho_smoking/gho_smoking_empower#tobacco_help_quit","descriptionShort":"National support for quitting smoking or tobacco use has different levels:\n- Countries in dark blue offer a national quitline and cover costs for nicotine replacement therapy or other cessation services.\n- Countries in light blue cover the costs of some services, but not all.\n- Countries in orange offer some services, but do not cover any costs.","descriptionFromProducer":"#### Rationale\nIn 2008, WHO introduced the MPOWER package to assist in the country-level implementation of six effective measures to reduce demand for tobacco products.  Each measure reflects at least one provision of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.  The letter O in MPOWER denotes the \"Offer help to quit tobacco use\" measure. Tobacco dependence treatment is primarily the responsibility of each country’s health-care system. Individual cessation interventions have a significant impact on individual health and are extremely cost-effective compared with many other health system activities. People who quit smoking, regardless of their age, smoking history or health status, experience immediate and profound health benefits and can reduce most of the associated risks within a few years of quitting. This indicator measures the implementation status of the O measure.\n\n#### Definition\n_Offer help to quit tobbacco_ Information from countries on the availability and non-availability of particular tobacco cessation aids is assessed to determine the comparative level of assistance countries provide to help tobacco users quit.\n\n_Cessation support_ means offering brief advice or individual or group activities to aid cessation (which can include providing information about quit lines or recommendations concerning pharmaceutical treatments) by primary care providers but does not include quit lines and pharmaceutical treatments.\n\n_A toll-free quit line_ is operational , to which anyone in the country can dial in free of charge to receive quit tobacco advice or tobacco cessation support in the form of brief or intensive behavioral counselling (Yes/No).\n\nFor the below five indicators measuring availability of cessation supports in specific places: the categories: \"Yes in most\" means in more than half. \"Yes in some\" means in less than half . \"No\" means in none at all.\n\n_Smoking cessation support available in health clinics or other primary health care facilities_ are the physical facilities exist in the community -- usually called the community health center or the primary health center -- used to address the main health problems in the community and used for both health care and other community activities.\n\n_Smoking cessation support is offered in hospitals_. \"Hospitals\" include all licensed establishments primarily engaged in providing medical, diagnostic, and treatment services that include physician, nursing, and other health services to in-patients and the specialized accommodation services required by in-patients. These establishments may also provide out-patient services as a secondary activity.\n\n_Smoking cessation support available at offices of health professionals_. Any professional health service provision from a consultation with a person with a formal medical health training that is not located in a hospital clinic or primary care facility. This includes private doctors, nurses, psychologists, and medical assistants. Cessation support provided by traditional or faith healers is considered \"in the community\", not \"at offices of health professionals\".\n\n_Smoking cessation support is offered in the community._ \"In the community\" means any setting specifically designed to serve the needs of the local population. This includes but is not limited to places of worship, sports or leisure centers, cultural and arts centers, adult training centers, childcare facilities, traditional meeting areas and the services of traditional or faith healers.\n\n_Smoking cessation support is offered in settings not elsewhere classified_ (i.e. not in hospitals, health clinics, other primary care facilities, offices of health professionals or in the community).\n\n_The national/federal health insurance or the national health service cover the cost of smoking cessation support:_ in health clinics and other primary care facilities, in hospitals, in offices of health professionals, in the community or in other non-listed places. Cost coverage is complete \"Fully\", partial \"partially\" or inexistent \"no\".\n\n_Smoking cessation medication is legally sold_ Available for purchase on the legal market\n\n* At least one type of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (such as patches, lozenges, gum, mouth or nasal s\n* Some brand of Bupropion (such as Zyban or Wellbutrin)\n* Varenicline (also known as Chantix or Champix)\n* Cytisine\n\n_Smoking cessation medication is available for purchase \"in a general store without a prescription\", \"in a pharmacy without a prescription\" or at a pharmacy without prescription_\n\n* At least one type of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (such as patches, lozenges, gum, mouth or nasal spray)\n* Some brand of Bupropion (such as Zyban or Wellbutrin)\n* Varenicline (also known as Chantix or Champix)\n* Cytisine\n\n#### Method of estimation\nCountry reported data, scored according to the definition of this 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