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Smoking cessation is the effort to stop smoking tobacco products.
If you smoke you should try to stop. This will improve your health now and in the future. Get some help. Quitting without support is extremely hard.
Drug treatments to help quitters have proven to be safe and effective, especially when combined with the support of your doctor.
Quitters need to seriously consider ways they should change their lifestyle to improve their chances of not restarting.
Many people need to try a number of times before they are successful. Smokers should not fear failure because they can always try again.
No smoking cessation methods have consistently achieved better than a 25% quit rate after six months. About 1.5%?3% of smokers manage to quit each year without support from health services. Enrollment into the placebo arm of medical trial and receiving a minimum level of counselling increases this rate to about 5%?10% after one year, partly relecting participants motivation.
What smoking cessation method has achieved the highest quit rate after six months?
Effective techniques to increase smokers chances of successfully quitting are:
Health professionals may follow the "five A's"
Alternative techniques include:
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