使用手机可以帮助你戒烟?

短语讲解：

1. The team spent more than two years recruiting thousands of smokers to take part in a random-controlled trial to see if texting could persuade them to give up.

take part in参加…, 参与…活动
例句：John takes part in many school activities.
约翰参加很多学校里的活动。
give up放弃;投降
例句：Bad habits are not easily given up.
恶习难改。

2. Nearly six thousand people from the UK signed up

sign up签订合同
例句：They manage to sign up all the best performers.
他们设法跟所有最佳演员签订合同。

3. Public health specialist, Dr. Cari Free London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, claim that according to their calculations the number of people who gave up had doubled.

according to根据;按照
例句：They divided themselves into three groups according to age.
他们按年龄分成三组。

4. Free then helped devise specific texts of messages to go out to people in the key stages of quitting.

go out被发出; 被发布, 被发行; 被传布
例句：Forms have gone out to all our sub-offices.
表格发到我们的所有分局。

5. After 24 hours, for example, a former smoker would be encouraged by a text telling them their lungs were now clear.

for example例如, 譬如
例句：There are many sources of air pollution; exhaust fumes, for example.
空气污染有许多来源, 例如废气。

6. There was some personalization, for example for some people putting on weight there were specific messages, for them, or for people worried that all their friends smoked and it was going to be really hard there were specific messages for them, so there was some personalization.

put on weight体重增加
例句：He has put on weight during the last two months.
他上两个月里体重增加了。

7. I think what people said about the programme was that it felt like a friend encouraging them.

feel like摸起来好像是...;觉得好像是...
例句：She felt like a fool.
她觉得自己好像是个大笨蛋。

8. One of the criticisms of texting is that it would be useful only in people who are literate and given the fact that there are a substantial number of illiterate people who smoke we need alternate methods and people are working on that.

a substantial number of大量的, 可观的
例句：The country bought a substantial number of weapons.
这个国家购买了大量武器。
work on致力于…
例句：He has been working on a new novel for over a year now.
近一年多来, 他一直在写一部新小说。