American Legacy Foundation

Foundation urges continued attempts at smoking cessation

Published in Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly, February 17th, 2005

The American Legacy Foundation says holiday stresses can make New Year's Day a tough time to follow through on a new resolution to quit smoking and believes that smokers should not pin all their hopes and aspirations on that one day to be a successful quitter.

New Year's resolutions to quit smoking are common, because 70% of the nation's 46 million smokers want to quit, and 41% made an attempt to quit for at least one day. Since most people quit 7 to 11 times before they are successful, many repeat New Year's resolutions and other attempts before they are able to quit smoking for good.

"Many smokers feel that they have failed after making a...

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Source: Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly (2005-02-17)

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