| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| 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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