The 6 “most effective” ways to quit smoking. From what I can...

The 6 “most effective” ways to quit smoking.  From what I can only assume are non smokers

For 50 yeas we have known that smoking can kill you.  It is still the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. and yet 42.1 million people light up and new smokers start every day.“Smoking is my best friend,” Atlantan Barry Blackwell said. “It’s always with me long after friends have left and people have gone, they are always here”

To help people who do want to quit, scientists have looked with great interest into what works. Especially since studies have shown that 90 percent of those who try to quit, will start smoking again despite their best efforts.Here are some options that have been scientifically proven to work, at least some of the time.

I’m not going to copy / Paste this whole article here,  But you can read the whole thing using the link at the bottom.  The main bullet points of the article are

Financial incentives

Financial benefit from quitting, may be your best bet – literally – particularly if you risk losing your own money.

Cold turkey

Only the most disciplined among us can quit without any help. Studies show only about 4-7% can do it without any additional help.

Find company

Love can help you through, according to a recent study that ran in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)

Inhalers, nasal sprays, lozenges, gum and skin patches that deliver nicotine slowly are designed to help smokers get over the initial cravings and symptoms of withdrawal. And they do seem to help.

Prescription drugs

Talk to your doctor if you want to take the prescription route, but there are some drugs that seem to have some success, especially if used with an NRT

And last but not least they touch on e-cigs 

E-cigarettes

The jury is still out on this method. (WHAT?! pumping you full of prescription drugs is just fine though)

In 2014, a study that ran in the British journal the Lancetfound of the 657 people trying to quit over a period of six months, e-cigarettes did help about 7.3% to quit. That was more than the 5.8% of the people in the study who used a patch. What stood out most to the study’s authors was that so few the people were successful quitting using any method. They concluded more research is urgently needed.

Another group that presented their research at the American Thoracic Society Conference this month found that while some people did quit using e-cigarettes rather than regular cigarettes, they didn’t necessarily quit for good. Looking at more than a thousand people who wanted to quit, the authors found those who had more success quitting in the short term used e-cigarettes, but this effect was no longer observed at three- or six-month followups.

Read the full article HERE

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