New Ways to Quit Smoking
To Stop Smoking Cigarettes, Look at More 'Stop Smoking Now' Ads
Sep 2, 2007
Knowing that smoking significantly increases your risk for head, neck, and lung cancer may not be incentive enough to make you stop smoking now. Discovering that secondhand smoke is freakishly unhealthy for your children, partner, pets or the people in riding in your car may not be the best way to quit smoking. Looking at the pictures of black lungs and rotting teeth may not make you stop smoking cigarettes.
If you're really ready to kick the cigarette habit, you may have to try new ways to quit smoking.
New ways to quit smoking: lung cancer screening
The Mayo Clinic found that lung cancer screening helps some people stop smoking cigarettes. Dr Matthew Clark says, "Our results indicate that people who participate in cancer screening were motivated to quit smoking. Cancer screening may present a 'teachable moment'." That is, when people learn how their lungs function and how smoking affects their organs, they may be more motivated to stop smoking.
If patients receive abnormal lung cancer screening results, they're (not surprisingly) even more motivated to quit. The more abnormal lung screenings they receive, the easier it is to quit.
Lung cancer is the most preventable cancer; smoking causes 85% of lung cancer diseases.
New ways to quit smoking: look at "quit smoking aids" ads
A new Cornell study shows that "the more magazine ads smokers see for the nicotine patch and other quit-smoking aids, the more likely the are to try to quit smoking and be successful – even without buying the products," promises a ScienceDaily headline.
Professor Alan Mathios called this phenomenon (people influenced to quit smoking simply by looking at "stop smoking now" product ads) a 'spillover effect' and noted that it happens with other pharmaceutical advertising. For instance, when patients and doctors discuss advertisements for prescription drugs and healthy non-prescription lifestyle choices, patients tend to make incorporate those healthy choices into their lives. This is a spillover effect from advertising.
Smokers who don't read magazines are less likely to quit. If you're trying to quit smoking now, or you know someone who wants to stop smoking cigarettes, one way to help is to make sure magazines that advertise smoking cessation products are widely available.
New ways to quit smoking: realize the link between eating and smoking
Weight gain can be a deterrent to quitting smoking. If you want to quit and don't want to gain forty pounds, learn how to overcome emotional eating and find exercise you actually enjoy.
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