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It wasn't an abrupt quitting.
Some also feared that abrupt quitting could be dangerous for some patients and not helpful for others.
While advice on how to gradually reduce the number of cigarettes smoked, and nicotine substitution, were more popular than advice on abrupt quitting, just over half were still interested in advice on the latter.
Abrupt quitting can be very dangerous and lead to seizure, heart attack or death.
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Despite 70% of smokers wanting and intending to stop at some time, 3 only 12% are ready to stop smoking in the next month 4 and thus only this small proportion are suitable for abrupt quit interventions.
Conclusions Available trials indicate that nicotine replacement therapy is an effective intervention in achieving sustained smoking abstinence for smokers who have no intention or are unable to attempt an abrupt quit.
This difference remained after adjusting for time since the quit attempt started, year of the survey, age, gender, social grade, abrupt versus gradual quitting, prior quit attempts in the same year and a measure of nicotine dependence.
When John Simm brought timeslipping crime drama Life On Mars to an abrupt end by quitting, not many people thought it was a great idea to work up a sequel set in the 80s.
This form of physical activity intervention is distinctly different from others that have predominantly focused on promoting vigorous bouts of longer periods of exercise (e.g. up to 60 mins) for 2-3 times per week in conjunction with an abrupt attempt to quit smoking (e.g. [ 34]).
"It demoralized me more than anything else in my whole life". Jones quit, his abrupt departure triggering protests from around the country.
Quite an abrupt shift.
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