title: Smoking cessation programmes using traditional medicine in Korea.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There are growing interests in using various methods including traditional and complementary medicines (T&CM) for tobacco control. The study aimed to introduce how traditional Korean medicine (TKM) applied to smoking cessation programmes in Korea and to show the detail information of each programme for designing other smoke cessation programmes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Reports of the smoke cessation programmes in Korea were searched on March 10th, 2016, from the webpages of the related agencies and the databases: the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Korea Health Foundation, the Association of Korean Medicine, PubMed, Google scholar, the RISS, the KISS, the NDSL, and the OASIS. Smoking cessation programmes, projects, or services using traditional Korean medicine (TKM) were included with no language, implementation site, and year restrictions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The three smoking cessation programmes using TKM in South Korea were the public health centre smoking cessation programme (PHC-SCP), the Ministry of Gender Equality & Family smoking cessation programme (MOGEF-SCP), and the National Health Insurance Service smoking cessation treatment project (NHIS-SCP). All programmes included ear acupuncture and counselling. Manual acupuncture was only used in the NHIS-SCP. The MOGEF-SCP and the NHIS-SCP used herbal medicines selectively. The PHC-SCP and MOGEF-SCP provided education programme and other tools such as non-smoking doll, self-writing handbook. They were run at no cost for participants. Treatment period were different for each programmes, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 to 12 weeks, respectively. Treatment frequency was twice a week for PHC-SCP and MOGEF-SCP, and dependent on each clinic for NHIS-SCP.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study showed the summaries of the smoking cessation programme that used TKM. The three programmes and the detail information will be a reference for other countries that are going to apply T&CM to their smoking cessation programme. Though TKM integrated smoking cessation programmes had been contributed to stop smoking, persistent efforts are needed to develop more effective and various treatments. In addition, this study suggests that consistent support and systematic reporting system are needed to be successful in non-smoking strategy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Soobin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Yu Lee
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: KM Fundamental Research Division, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, 1672 Yuseongdae-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34054, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ju Ah
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Kyeong Han
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Eun-Kyoung
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Korean Internal Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Sang-ji University Korean medicine Hospital, 80 Sangjidae-gil, Wonju, 26338, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Seung-Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Yong-Cheol
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea. epiko@khu.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Seong-Gyu
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Daejeon University, 62 Daehak-ro, Daejeon, 34520, Republic of Korea. sjpark422@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Sunju
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6398-4612
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D055670:Medicine, Korean Traditional; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Ear acupuncture; Smoking cessation; Tobacco control; Traditional Korean medicine