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| Smoking Cessation Program |
Question:
Do smoking cessation programs work and what studies out there support this?
Answer:
In a new study of 5,887 middle-aged smokers with mild lung disease, those
who were randomly assigned to a smoking cessation program had a lower death rate
than those assigned to usual care, even though only 21.7 percent of them
actually quit smoking.
The annual death rates were 8.8 per 1000 participants in the quit-smoking
program and 10.4 per 1000 in the usual care group. The annual death rates
for those who actually quit were even more positive: 6.0 per 1000 patients
compared with 11.0 per 1000 in those who did not quit smoking.
The findings were based on data from the Lung Health Study. Randomized
trials like the Lung Health Study are widely regarded as the gold standard
for proof among clinical studies.
Young people who are found to have
abnormal lung function should be put into an aggressive smoking cessation
program
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