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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 22 Smoking and tobacco cessation |
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| | "...any cigarettes at all smoked following a target quit day have extremely poor |
| | prognostic implication for the long-term success of that attempt. Even an isolated |
| | cigarette smoked more than 2 or 3 days into a quit attempt seems to lead almost |
| | invariably to long-term relapse." |
| | The Tobacco Epidemic, p. 162 |
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| | In a "success curve" for a single attempt to quit smoking, by the end of one week, only |
| | 46 percent of smokers were still off cigarettes; in other words, 54 percent had |
| | relapsed within seven days of stopping. By the end of four weeks, only 25 percent |
| | remained abstinent; by the end of six months, ten percent; and at one year, only eight |
| | percent were still successful. |
| | Deadly Choices, p. 167 |
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| | 32% of current smokers quit for at least a day in the previous year, and 81% have |
| | tried to quit at some time in the past. There are 15 million unsuccessful quitters in the |
| | US each year. |
| | Deadly Choices, p. 250 |
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| | 70% of the nation's 46 million current smokers want to stop smoking and 34% attempt |
| | to quit each year, but only 2.5%, or about a million people, are actually successful. |
| | JAMA, February 1, 1995, p. 370 |
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| | In 1990 and 1991, 42% of all smokers abstained for at least a day, but 86% of this |
| | group subsequently resumed smoking. About 1.2 million persons (2.5% of smokers) |
| | quit permanently and become former smokers each year. |
| | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, September 4, 1992, p. 505 |
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