Description

This category studied people who had lung cancer to see if they gave up smoking.

1,661 smokers included from 17 separate studies.

Results

Lung cancer patients had the fourth highest quit rate of any category.

The results are still in the highly successful range.

However, in terms of planning your quit smoking strategy, this is not a realistic choice.

The surprising result is that there are more successful methods for quitting smoking than a lung cancer diagnosis.

Bottom line

The idea is to quit smoking to avoid health problems that come with smoking.

For those who wait too long, health problems can be highly motivational to get smokers to quit.

However, there are more effective methods available right now, to help you quit smoking, before things turn bad.

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