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New Way To Help Quit Smoking Successfully At least 6 million people worldwide die because of cigarette smoking each year, and 600,000 of these deaths are caused by second-hand smoke. Second-hand smoke is also known as environmental tobacco smoke. It includes the smoke from burning tobacco and smoke that has been exhaled or breathed out by a smoker. Tobacco smoke is the possible cause of some 25 different diseases, including lung cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Undoubtedly, smoking is not only bad for the smokers themselves but also harmful to the people around them. Hence there is every reason for smokers to stop smoking so as to prevent them as well as their loved ones from getting the many possible diseases. In reality, quitting smoking can never be easy. But, if smokers who have decided to quit smoking can have the support from their friends and family, they are more likely to follow through. On the other hand, the relapse rates for smokers trying to quit can be extremely high, ranging from 60 to 90 percent, within the first year, according to a study published in 2002 in journal ‘Nicotine & Tobacco Research’. Researchers from Boston University School of Dental Medicine also pointed out that 19 percent of ex-smokers who stayed away from smoking for 2 or more years eventually resumed smoking. To refrain from resuming smoking, smokers should perhaps discuss the risks of cigarette smoking with their children. This is because they were at least 50 percent less likely to go back to smoking. These are the findings of a study that were published online September 27, 2015 in journal ‘Nicotine and Tobacco Research’.
Researchers from the Public Health Research Division of RTI International examined the data of callers who have children aged between 8 and 10 years old from the help hotline Quitlines in 11 states. Of 1,604 parents, 689 quit smoking for at least 24 hours after calling. These parents were around 37 years old at the onset of the study, and they had typically started smoking when they were about 16. Most of them had tried to quit at least once before the current attempt and had a previous daily habit of at least 20 cigarettes, or about a pack a day. Many of them also lived in households with at least 1 or 2 current smokers. Participants were divided into 2 groups: treatment and control groups. Treatment group consisted of 344 parents who received educational materials like magazines about risks of tobacco use and activities to help them discuss the dangers of smoking with their children. The control group consisted of 345 parents who did not receive any help. By using phone interviews conducted at 7 and 12 months, the 30-day abstinence was measured. The follow-up interviews were used to gauge whether they had sustained their decision to quit smoking. At the end of the study, only 465 parents remained out of the original 689. After accounting for the dropouts, parents who received mailers were still 58 percent more likely to remain abstinent by the end of the study. While the study is the first one to determine the association between parent-child interaction about smoking and the ability of parents to kick the habit, and the research is important because it suggested an entirely new approach to helping adults succeed in quitting smoking, it did have some shortcomings. For instance, high dropout rate, and the reliance on parents to accurately report if they remained abstinent. Moreover, there was a lack of data to explain why parents in the treatment group were more likely to avoid tobacco. The findings, however, did suggest that parents may reinforce what they know about the benefits of smoking cessation by teaching these lessons to their children. Humans tend to want to act consistent with what they teach others. By teaching their child, the parents hold themselves more accountable.
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