Doc Gurley: Well Worth It - November
That equals the number who would die if a Titanic sank every 24 minutes for the next 100 years, as former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop so starkly put it at a March press conference.” In terms of how much picking a personal meaning might help you quit, the data is, as you can imagine, complex, but shows a significant benefit to making your reasons to quit personal. When studies of 20,414 smokers were combined, even the gloomiest interpretation of the results showed an odds ratio increase in permanent quitting of 1.42 (95% CI 1.26 to 1.61), where 1.0 = no effect.
What You Should Know - The one big (pardon the pun) downer to reviewing reasons to quit is that it can leave you feeling…depressed.
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