Smoking (again)
I’ve wrote about smoking a couple of times recently. I promise I won’t start doing it all the time.
I wanted to do this follow-up though.
The NYC Health Department has a new report out called “Who’s Still Smoking“. This report says that “two thirds of the city’s smokers – almost 800,000 adults – tried to quit in the past year, but only 17% of those succeeded. Data from the survey identify emotional distress and binge drinking as possible obstacles to quitting”.
In NYC there are 240,000 less people smoking now than in 2002. The decreases have been seen in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens but in Staten Island the numbers have not gone down.
The press release has some good tips for quitting too: New report on smoking shows who’s quitting, who’s not.
In other smoking news - almost 2 million older people in China today are expected to die from emphysema and related diseases due by second-hand smoke according to a report published in the Lancet recently.
The Cheerful Oncologist blogged about this recently too. I would guess, like the commenter over there, that some of the problem is due to the pollution from industry in China. But as China is going ban all tobacco advertising, promotions and sponsorship by 2011 at least they are trying to do something about the smoking problem.
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on September 1st, 2007 at 9:37 am
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on October 25th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
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on October 25th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
cool! thanks!
on May 13th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
There are loads of great and useful tips to help folks quit smoking for both men and women, but as someone who had attempted to stop a handful of times over 30+ years, I found that a determination to give up aided with will power alone was not enough after years of continual smoking. Yes I needed the above, but for me I also need a kick start to break the craving in those early days, and for me, it was nicotine patches which really helped.
What patches did was take away the craving which in turn took away the restlessness, irritability, and attitude of discontentment which make it so difficult to stop in those early days of smoking cessation. Just my 2 cents worth!
on May 30th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
“Emotional distress” and “binge drinking” as mentioned in your post as being the two factors that keep people from being able to quit smoking is right on the money. Many binge drinkers that also smoke have an incredibly difficult time when comes to quitting smoking. However, there are some new stop smoking aids that have recently been introduced that have shown some positive results one of which is nicocure.