Quitting Smoking is Where the Party’s At: A New Study
May 23, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Health, Relationships, Smoking, Web, Your Body, Your Mind
In a study set to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, researchers have found that quitting smoking is more often a group decision, rather than individual. What kind of group, you ask? A social group.
That’s right, according to the study, smokers tend to quit more in groups, or clusters, rather than on their own.
From 1971 to 2003, Dr. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and James Fowler from the University of California, San Diego, followed thousands of smokers and nonsmokers, concentrating on studying participants as part of a “network” of relatives, co-workers, neighbors, friends …read more
