Ex-Smokers Offer Help to Those Who Want to Quit

By ACSH Staff — Dec 28, 2005

A December 28, 2005 article by Erin Kelly mentions a smoking-cessation statistic gleaned from ACSH: Each year, about 40 percent of smokers try to quit. Of those, only about 5 percent succeed on their first try. About half succeed after several attempts, according to the American Council on Science and Health, a consortium of doctors, scientists and policy advisers.

A December 28, 2005 article by Erin Kelly mentions a smoking-cessation statistic gleaned from ACSH:

Each year, about 40 percent of smokers try to quit. Of those, only about 5 percent succeed on their first try. About half succeed after several attempts, according to the American Council on Science and Health, a consortium of doctors, scientists and policy advisers.