Description

People in this category had heart attacks and lived. Studies then tracked if they gave up smoking.

4,553 smokers included from 34 separate studies.

Results

Heart attack survivors had the highest quit rate of any category.

Cardiac disease can be quite motivational in stopping smoking.

How many second chances do we get?

Bottom line

Surviving a heart attack is not a realistic choice, in terms of planning to quit smoking.

The research listed methods only by effectiveness, not how available or convenient they were.

Please look at number two on the list, hypnosis, for a method that:

• works well,
• is open to choice, and
• is safe.

More information on what works, what doesn't, and why

Smoking quit tips has the big picture take away from the research

Our stop smoking program has the scientifically proven best choice to quit smoking

The method of quit smoking study has the study background including:

• Citations and links
• Study authors and methods
• Study's reception in the research community
• Criteria for including the 633 separate studies, and more

Nice reasons to stop smoking has the really good news about quitting smoking

Side effects of quit smoking methods lists the shocking side effects by method, straight from the FDA

Ways to quit smoking has the full list of links to 15 methods

Important patch research explains the Journal of the American Medical Association article that concluded the patch and NRT was "No longer effective"

The IRS and quitting smoking shows that the IRS does not like weak methods like drugs and NRT at all