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| Friends quit smoking? You probably will too - The Ledger The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting apparently is, too. A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker is more likely to kick the habit if a spouse Source: www.theledger.com Quitting smoking can be contagious - Chicago Sun-Times If you want to quit smoking, you might need a little help from your friends. A study published in today's New England Journal of Medicine found that smokers were more likely to quit if a spouse, friend or sibling did, too. Click to enlarge image A Source: www.suntimes.com Smokers tend to give up in groups - BBC News The research reveals one person's decision to stop smoking often spreads through friends, family and bradley smokers work mates, leading them to quit as well. The closer the relationship, the greater the influence on the person giving up. The U.S research, in the Source: news.bbc.co.uk Smokers stick together when kicking the butt - New Kerala Instead, the decision to quit smoking is often influenced by social networks, with entire clusters of spouses, friends, siblings and bradley smokers co-workers giving up the habit roughly in tandem. The study analysing changes in smoking behaviour over the past Source: www.newkerala.com Smokers Quit in Droves, Not Isolation - HealthCentral.com Copyright 2008 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved. WEDNESDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- When one person quits smoking, that health triumph doesn't occur in isolation, new research shows. Instead, it appears that one person quitting can cause a Source: www.healthcentral.com |