Chapter 22 Smoking and tobacco cessation

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"Stopping smoking is easy to do; I have done it thousands of times!" Statement

attributed to Mark Twain.

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, May 1986, p. 337

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About a third of smokers who have been abstinent for one year will relapse at some

time in the future.

Clinics in Chest Medicine, December 1991, p. 640

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In a survey from San Diego, the likelihood of remaining continuously abstinent for two

years was about 90% for former smokers who had quit for three months or longer, and

95% of those who had quit for one year or longer.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, April 16, 1997, p. 572

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17 million Americans each year make a serious attempt to quit smoking, but 15

million fail. 38% of smokers who have a heart attack begin smoking again as soon as

they leave the hospital, as do 40% of patients who have had cancerous larynxes

removed.

Washington Post National Weekly Edition, April 4, 1994, p. 27

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48% of all California smokers quit for at least a day during the previous year, but more

than 80% of these attempts did not last a full year.

Tobacco Use in California, p. 58

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The 1.3 million successful quitters each year in the US are almost compensated for by

a million new smokers each year.

JAMA, January 6, 1989, p. 61

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