中医药辅助戒烟思路初探

Traditional Chinese Medicine-aided Smoking Cessation

本文通过分析烟草的本草考证,烟瘾的病因病机,戒烟困难患者的常见临床表现,探求中医药辅助戒烟的基本思路与途径。

According to the World Health Organization, smoking is the most common and the only preventable disease which threatens human health and causes death. Although smoking cessation has drawn great attention, its success rate is seriously affected by a series of symptoms after smoking cessation. Thus tobacco dependence has been identified as a chronic and highly recurrent disease. This article reviews the textual research concerning Chinese medicine herb tobacco, explores the etiology and pathogenesis of smoking addiction, and analyzes the common clinical manifestation of the patients who fail to quit smoking, trying to find the basic ideas and approaches for the traditional Chinese medicine-aided smoking cessation .