Sentence examples for failing to quit from inspiring English sources

Her Lawyers argued that the negligence led to Michael Johnson Sr contracting lung cancer from smoking cigarettes after becoming "addicted" and failing to quit after many attempts to stop smoking.

After smoking 20 cigarettes daily for 25 years and failing to quit, Ms. Stephan said she had cut down to one a day in the three months since she began puffing on a so-called e-cig.

Instead of hating myself for failing to quit smoking cigarettes, I recently took a comprehensive look at my smoking habits.

Trying and failing to quit could worsen mental health, and some studies in the review derived data from smoking cessation trials.

Inclusion criteria were: 1) Heroin users failing to quit drug use more than once; 2) age ≥ 20 years; and 3) full civil capacity.

There was no evidence of subgroup differences (table 6, suggesting that deterioration in mental health as a reaction to failing to quit was an unlikely cause of the difference between quitters and continuing smokers.

"As far as my colleagues here in the Senate, they are grasping as I am to try to get to the truth of this situation," Durbin said after failing to persuade Burris to quit.

A parallel set of regressions was conducted for the two quit outcomes with different comparison groups: (i) with those enrolled but not quitting; and (ii) with those achieving the preceding quitting step (initiating a quit attempt or quitting at delivery), but failing to make the next step (quitting at delivery or 6 months postpartum).

In her final year, Seinfeld's future co-creator Larry David joined the writing staff, only to quit after failing to get a single sketch on air during his tenure.

Therefore, failing to take recent unsuccessful quit attempts into account in analyses of smoking and mental health status may lead to misleading results.

In the UK, research showed that up to 80% of women on once-daily bisphosphonate and 60% on once-weekly medication failed to last a year without quitting or failing to take it as directed.