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How to Stop Smoking Without Any Withdrawal Symptoms
If you’re one of the millions of people who smoke, you know it’s not an easy habit to break. But it’s worth it. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and can lead to a wide range of health problems, including cancer, heart disease, and respiratory illness.
Smoking is a major public health problem. Every year, more people die from smoking than from murder, AIDS, car accidents, and suicide combined. In the United States, smoking causes more than 440,000 deaths each year, including more than 41,000 deaths from secondhand smoke exposure. Smoking is responsible for one in five deaths in the United States each year.
More than twenty-five million Americans are nicotine addicts. That means that they are either currently smoking or have a strong desire to smoke, and therefore probably find it difficult to quit. Over fifty percent of smokers want to stop but cannot succeed because of their nicotine addiction. Therefore, more than ten million Americans are currently addicted to nicotine.
Up to three-quarters of smokers want to quit. Every year, 45 percent try to stop smoking, and 10 percent attempt it daily. In any given year, about eight out of ten of these attempts fail and one out of ten leads to success. This means that about two million people manage to quit smoking each year.
