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Program for Dentist Participation in Smoking Cessation Services" were continued to be promoted, and each training program is described in the following: Training Program for Smoking Cessation Physicians Empirical studies demonstrated that the effects of physician advices for smoking cessation were correlated with the effort. Hence, the HPA has started commissioned the Taiwan Association of Family Medicine since 2002 to organize and hold "smoking cessation physicians" training program. The program included (1) editing standardized clinical smoking cessation materials; (2) training courses of the smoking cessation physicians; (3) evaluating the effectiveness of the program; (4) setting up and maintaining the database of certified physicians; and (5)quality enhancement guidance and communication. To give knowledge about smoking cessation treatment and ensure the quality of services, the training courses included: Nicotine Addiction and Withdrawal Symptoms, Hazards of Tobacco Products and Benefits of Smoking Cessation, Clinical Techniques for Treating Dependence on Tobacco Products, Medication for Smoking Cessation, Case Studies, as well as Strategies and Practices to Tobacco Control. In 2018, a total of 8 such courses were held total of 474 physicians were trained (Table 1-4). In order to encourage more cardiology physicians to participate in smoking cessation services, the HPA cooperated with Taiwan Society of Cardiology, Taiwan Society of Lipids and Atherolsclersosis and Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and arranged 5 sessions of smoking cessation physician training course.The course will adopt online learning course and physical course, and will pass the exam pass credit certification. From 2002 to 2018, a total of 14,074 physicians were trained, accounting for 30% of the total population of practicing physicians. Family physician was the leading group, followed by general practitioners, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, otorhinolaryngology, surgery, gynecology and neurology. To update the certification of smoking cessation physicians, the Taiwan Association of Family Medicine not only organized face-to-face continuing education to increase the knowledge and skills of physicians about smoking cessation services but also invited experts to draw monograph in the web courses (website: https:// quitsmoking.hpa.gov.tw) and the "Smoking Cessation Service Communication Report" published by the Smoking Cessation Treatment Management Center via mails or internet. According to the teaching satisfaction survey, the overall test scores of students after the training course are higher than or equal to the pretest scores, with a course satisfaction of 90%. Table 1-4 Exemplary medical institutions commended in the 2017 "Quality Improvement Measures for Smoking Cessation Services" Year Physician Year Physician Year Physician 2002 2,187 2008 665 2014 836 2003 747 2009 715 2015 556 2004 509 2010 1,048 2016 370 2005 2,133 2011 516 2017 275 2006 711 2012 986 2018 474 2007 808 2013 538 Total 14,074 Note: Physicians repeated training were deducted from the table. 61 Reducing the Demand for Tobacco