Research progress in application of serious games in smoking cessation intervention
Tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemical components and involves dozens of carcinogens that threaten human health.Smoking not only contributes to self-addiction and damages human respiratory system and neurological development,but also has adverse effects on people who are forced to inhale second-hand smoke.For China,which has more than 300 million smokers,finding feasible measures to effectively quit smoking and reduce the diseases caused by smoking is an important issue that needs to be solved on the road to building a"Smoke-free China".As a new type of in-tervention for education,serious games have been proved to have good intervention effects.This paper will study the applica-tion progress of serious games in smoking cessation intervention at home and abroad,analyze the forms,theories and mecha-nisms of serious games in smoking cessation intervention,explore its application value and difficulties in the field of smoking cessation intervention,and provide theoretical reference for proposing more targeted research design.