Inspiration for foreign countries
For professionals in smoking cessation in the UK we're not uninteresting country. Robert West put it, the Czech Centre for addicted to tobacco, which works at the General Teaching Hospital in Prague, is also inspired by British experts in creating their own system to help people addicted to smoking. Nevertheless, it seems that access to smoking and smokers Czech society has still considerable reserves.
Some professional advice
Here are a few things to a professional who sees the Czech situation outside:
Programmed government support. Missing in the Czech Republic an extensive anti-smoking campaigns supported by the government due to which, for example, in the UK has significantly increased awareness of the harmful effects of smoking and its negative consequences for the economy of the entire country.
Sense of quitting. People who try to quit tobacco, to be constantly reminded that every day without a cigarette makes sense. That even unsuccessful efforts can not be seen as a failure, but as the days that managed to live "healthy". And it always makes sense to try again.
Influence of the environment. One of the main reasons to return to a cigarette is nicotine addiction in addition to the influence of the smoking area. Robert West recommends respond to these temptations lovely sentence: "Right now I do not want to smoke."
Smoking young. In the UK in recent years has decreased by 50% the number of young people who start smoking. For this almost miraculous phenomenon could occur in our country, it is necessary to change the view of the whole society of smoking - it simply would not be attractive and sexy.
Offer to help. Similarly, in the Czech Republic as well as in Britain, there is a system of treatment for tobacco dependence. It is easily accessible and therefore used - for example, in 2012 it passed almost 900,000 people, and according to estimates, about 150,000 of them permanently rid of their habit.
Source: Quitting kouřerní.cz