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About what percent of those who try in any one year to quit smoking cigarettes on their own actually succeed?
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∙ 11y ago
At least in Canada there are no truthful stats. I got in touch with the B.C. Lung Assoc., posing as a non smoker and what I heard was astounding. Their stats are rated on 'guesstimates!' Some people are successful, but smoking is difficult for most people (they say as hard as trying to come off heroine) and there is no magic pill that will help, but just when the time is right for the person to quit. Many smokers do go back to smoking (may quit again until they quit entirely) and it can be caused by stress or just wanting the nicotine back in their body. When I phoned Mother's Against Drunk Drivers they had the exact stats of extreme injuries to death re car accidents/drunk drivers and this is because they get their stats from the police. If the government or certain people want others to quit smoking they should try to understand the addiction first (get to know what you are talking about) and provide as much support as possible. By hounding someone it only makes matters worse. The government has made huge revenues off tobacco products and the price of cigarettes has gone up dramatically so something smells pretty fishy there. I fear that the Canadian and U.S. governments are leading into Dictatorship telling people to quit smoking, they are obese, what to eat, (on the news recently the U.S. is clamping down hard on certain restaurants re trans fats) but my idea of this is, people are adults and can make their own choices and NO government has the right to dictate what they think and if we allow this the next thing governments will start telling us how to live, what to read, etc., if people don't get their head out from under their rocks. The next thing I'm expecting is an old German tactic of ALL citizens had to have their radios on to listen to constant Propaganda and couldn't shut off the radio although they could turn it down. Here our governments are blaming smokers for everything down to the boil on someones butt when the whole of their environment is under stress and if they would put 1/8th of the effort into the whole of the environment this would be a better world to live in. There is a way to quit smoking, trust me.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoGreat question. This has been investigated thoroughly by many physicians. The first issue is to define success. We typically use one year abstinence as an arbitrary standard. While cravings decrease most in the first year, people can crave nicotine for many years.
In clinical studies, quitting "cold turkey" without any medication succeded in only 10-16% of the time. Pretty depressing -- five in six start smoking again within a year. If one adds any type of nicotine replacement (gum, patch, inhaled, lozenge etc.) this goes up to 20-24%. Still failing three quarters of quitters.
A relatively new medicine is Chantix (varenicline). In the studies that led to its approval by the FDA, up to 48% people had quit at six months. I do not know if they have any long term data but that would be easily searchable at the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine website called PubMed.
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∙ 10y ago35% of people quit smoking by themselves.
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∙ 13y ago88.5%
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∙ 14y ago10%
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∙ 14y ago50 percent
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∙ 11y ago7 percent
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