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In fact, there is a slow but steady resettlement from Pillar Point as these refugees seek treatment, become detoxified and become therefore eligible for resettlement.

[...] [...] is adopted to help pathological gamblers or drug addicts or even alcoholics to kick their habits.

This is especially important in helping those adolescents who are determined to give up the bad habit of drug addiction.

These products can relieve nicotine craving and withdrawal symptoms, thereby facilitating smoking cessation in smokers.

[...] [...] they may even give up smoking.

(b) whether it will increase the subvention for those services which help young addicts to give up soft drugs?

[...] [...] drug offenders quit the drug abusing [...]

Preventing youngsters from smoking will spare them the pain of ill health and trying to kick the habit later.

Other reasons counted for 3%, while the rate of women who previously were drug and alcohol addicts but gave up with treatment was 1%.

The Centre should promote elderly health education in various aspects, for example, old people should have good living habits, and should be taught to quit smoking, drinking and so on.

Lastly, I would like to point out that for those people who wish to quit soft drugs, they may encounter some kind of discrimination.

In her view, parents who had experience in handling and assisting their drug-addicted children, and students who had successful experience in drug rehabilitation were in the best position to give views on the subject matter.

To me the reasons are obvious: How sincere is the Government in its policy to wipe out this unhealthy habit?

If fact, if we review this area, it will not be difficult to see that both the services provided by the Hospital Authority, the Department of Health, the Tobacco Control Office or the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health and the funding provided to them are all sorely inadequate.

Provides addiction recovery programs in Richmond, North and West Vancouver and along the Sea-to-Sky Highway, Sunshine Coast and BC’s Central Coast.

According to the findings of a clinical study participated by 411 smokers who try the 'NRT-Cut Down Then Stop' therapy, the success rate to quit smoking in one year of the group on therapy is two times more than that of the placebo group.

The recent therapy recommended by medical professionals, 'NRT-Cut Down Then Stop' targets at those who are not ready or unable to stop abruptly and helps them take the first step to quit. It works by replacing cigarette by nicotine replacement therapy such as nicotine chewing gum to reduce cigarette consumption, and build confidence until the desire to smoke vanishes.

[...] [...] to smoking to quit this luxurious [...]

All managers are required to attend classes on the prevention of drug dependence that will enable them to recognize employees who are at risk or already addicted, and to encourage them to seek the proper treatment.

However, the most important step of all is to devote more resources to enhancing social work services, with a view to helping these young persons to kick the bad habit of drug abuse.

[...] may control and quit their addiction through out-patient services, but some may require hospitalization or residential services. It is therefore necessary to increase short or medium term accommodation services in this respect in order to help these young people to quit their drug addiction.

The Government should examine the usage of smoking cessation service and suitably allocate more resources to enhance these services so that no smoker determined to kick the habit would fail to do so because of inadequate support.

They aim to strengthen the physique [...] [...]