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    ARMENIANS DO NOT HURRY TO QUIT SMOKING

    Armenpress
    Oct 18 2006

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 18, ARMENPRESS: David Petrosian, the chief manager
    of a special center established last year in Yerevan to help people
    wishing to quit smoking, said to Armenpress his country fellows were
    not in a hurry to try do quit smoking.

    Smokers wishing to give up this pernicious habit have to pay $50 to
    doctors of this special anti-smoking center who offer medications
    and psychological consultations to help quit smoking.

    Petrosian said overall 17 people have asked for the center's help in
    12 months, but 2 people began smoking again, but he argued this did
    not mean that Armenians were reluctant to quit smoking.

    "We have to step up drastically the anti-smoking campaign to see
    progress,' he said The treatment of each patient here depends on
    the extent of their tobacco dependence. David Petrosian cited some
    figures saying that this sort of centers have helped to reduce the
    number of smokers in the USA and some European countries from 70 to
    25 percent. The center has a dietitian to consult people fearing they
    may put on weight after quitting smoking.

    The World Health Organization estimates that 63.7 percent of Armenian
    men are smokers - the highest rate in Europe. By comparison, an
    estimated 60 percent of men in neighboring Georgia are smokers and
    31.2 percent in Azerbaijan.
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