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Quitting smoking for good is tough, even with the help of a nicotine patch. A new study shows only 5% of people who participated in a study of a nicotine patch were still not smoking eight years after the study ended.
Researchers say few studies have looked at the long-term effectiveness of nicotine replacement treatments, such as the nicotine patch, in helping people kick the smoking habit for good. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, surveyed 840 of the 1,625 men and women who participated in a randomized controlled trial of the nicotine patch in 1991-92. During the original study, the participants wore a nicotine patch or a placebo patch for 12 weeks and were then followed for 12 months. By the end of that study, 9% had quit smoking for a year. But eight years later, researchers found nearly half had smoked again, and only 5% were still non-smokers. Those that were unreachable at follow-up were assumed to be still smoking.
Researcher Patricia Yudkin, of the University of Oxford, U.K., and colleagues say the relapse rate among those who quit smoking in the original study was similar for those who had used the nicotine patch (39%) and those who used the placebo (45%). Although the patch slightly increased the odds of quitting smoking for eight years, the increase was not statistically significant. Among those who did not quit smoking during the initial study, 8% had stopped smoking after eight years, and of those, 6% had quit for a year or more.
Overall, researchers say the results show that eight years later, only about 11% of the study participants had successfully quit smoking for a year or more, yet only 2% of the participants had quit for less than a year, and 88% were still smoking. Researchers say the study demonstrates that "finding more effective ways to help people give up smoking remains an ongoing challenge."
British Medical Journal; July 3, 2003.
Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis is one of the most effective ways of giving up smoking. A 2005 study of 72,000 smokers from Europe and the US, reported in the Journal of Applied Psychology, showed that hypnosis came top as the most effective therapy in helping people to give up smoking.
Guardian Unlimited, 7th Jan 2006.
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