The Ministry of Health has reiterated its call for smokers who want to reduce or stop smoking to participate in the smoking cessation assistance programme, created specifically to help people through the process that is available to all insured persons on the CNS.
One-in-five Luxembourg residents smokes, with the result that tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the Grand Duchy.
The smoking cessation programme provides for regular consultations with the doctor of choice for an eight-month period and, if necessary, weaning medicines that will be prescribed for the duration of the cure.
In this context, the Ministry of Health has launched a new campaign to motivate the cessation of smoking from the beginning of this year.
Under the slogan "2017: I stop!", the ministry says the media campaign has already been very successful over the past five months and participation rates have significantly increased.
More information, as well as the leaflet informing about the progress of the Tobacco Programme are available at: www.tabac-stop.lu.
According to the ministry, tobacco is responsible for nearly six million deaths per year. More than 600,000 of those are nonsmokers, unintentionally exposed to tobacco smoke.
In Luxembourg, approximately 1,000 people die each year from tobacco-related diseases, 80 of them from passive smoking. The main causes are cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
