Description

This category boiled down to a doctor saying"... and another thing, quit smoking."

7,190 smokers included from 17 separate studies.

Results

Doctor advice had the 15th highest quit rate of any category.

These results are dead last in the study.

Bottom line

One person in 100 quit smoking as a results of a doctor's advice, after backing out the results of the control group.

Perhaps the lesson here is how little influence the advice of others, even authority figures, has on our behavior.

If you were the one in 100, you probably would have quit smoking already.

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