AND more than half of quit attempts lasted less than a week, according to a poll of 6,200 current or former smokers.
The average smoker tried to quit four times, and one in 10 unsuccessfully tried 10 times.
But despite the repeated failures, 45% of smokers think about giving up every day.
Three in five (60%) plan to stub out their last cigarette in January, according to the survey on behalf of Pfizer's Don't Go Cold Turkey campaign.
via www.news.com.au
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While the main focus of World No Tobacco Day this week was on getting people to quit smoking, new SA research indicates that a large percentage of children are using equally addictive smokeless tobacco products, like snuff and chewing tobacco.
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Thursday, 31 May is World No Tobacco Day, a World Health Organisation (WHO) day dedicated to highlighting why tobacco is harmful to your body, and why quitting is life-saving. Roche's cancer education platform, Be Cancer Aware, is inviting all smokers in South Africa to quit for the day. You can help promote the campaign and show that you're "too cool to smoke" by wearing your sunglasses to work on the day.
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Big Tobacco is at it again. Once more they are spinning falsehoods and fabrications about Proposition 29. The claim made by Big Tobacco that the funds generated from Proposition 29 will not be used in California is just wrong. It is ironic that this patently false claim is being delivered by self-interested out-of-state tobacco companies. Both the explicitly stated purpose of the measure and the composition of the commission ensure that funds will stay in California.
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Cycling icon Lance Armstrong has, at various points in his life, played the parts of both David and Goliath. In his most recent fight, he'd better hope he's packing his slingshot.
The cancer-beating, seven-time Tour de France champion now faces one of the toughest challenges of his career: combating Big Tobacco's multimillion-dollar onslaught against a tax hike on cigarette sales in California.
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The Fort Worth City Council's consideration of a policy against hiring smokers has stirred strong opinions.
Some see a slippery slope toward employment discrimination while others consider it responsible promotion of workplace wellness.
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Warnings on cigarette packages about the health hazards of smoking can help deter many ex-smokers from lighting up again, a new international study finds.
The findings may be especially timely for policymakers in the United States, since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to mandate graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packaging in September.
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