How to get a smoker addicted to quitting

In the last decades, the negative effects of cigarette smoking resulted in a significant increase in chronic cardiovascular and pulmonary disease, cancer and preventable deaths. Smoking being highly physically and mentally addictive and extremely harmful, once again highlighted the need for an intensive and combined mental and physical treatment approach in specific patient groups in order to succeed in durable smoking abstinence. Education campaigns to raise awareness and more systematic research into the possible health consequences of smoking the waterpipe were recommended, given the indication that health consequences of smoking the waterpipe are probably equally worrisome as those of cigarette smoking.