Nearly 2 million smokers applied to medical centers in the last seven years to quit smoking, according to the numbers given by the Health Ministry. Initiated in 2010, the quit smoking hotline assists people who want to quit smoking and helps the fight against tobacco products to be more effective. The hotline which offers its services with a total of 175 operators answers about 6,000 calls per day. Also, medical centers that help smokers break their habit integrated with www.alo171.saglik.gov.tr via new software and has been working hand in hand in the fight against tobacco products.

The patients who check in to medical centers to quit smoking are also registered by the hotline and they receive calls from the hotline six times over the course of a year and are checked whether they quit smoking or not. The psychosocial motivational support already being provided by the hotline and the medical centers is now also available online, with 107,585 people having visited the quit smoking website since December 2016. Around 23 percent of smokers quitted smoking after the first month of their application while the rate was around 7 percent after one year.

The Health Ministry which took action to fight tobacco products with the Health Transformation Program has brought certain restrictions regarding the use and sale of tobacco products in an attempt to protect individual and communal health. Turkey combats smoking very effectively with efforts to curb smoking by helping addicts at special centers. The Health Ministry continuously monitors any violation of the smoking ban in enclosed spaces in restaurants, cafes and eateries, especially in winter. The World Health Organization (WHO) also reported that Turkey is among the top seven countries that have passed 100 percent smoke-free laws.