2020 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking Cessation
The 2020 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking Cessation actually acknowledged that most people who have quit smoking have done so by going cold turkey but still encourages smokers to quit by other methods:
Quotting from Chapter 1, Page 15, Perspectives on Smoking Cessation:
Proponents of encouraging smokers to quit without treatment, often called quitting “cold turkey,” point to data indicating that most smokers who quit successfully do so without medications or any type of formal assistance, as well as to population surveys suggesting that cold-turkey quitters do as well or better than those who use over-the-counter NRTs. Proponents of this approach also suggest that medicalization may dis-empower smokers and create artificial barriers to quitting (Alpert et al. 2013; Polito 2013).
Citation from Chapter 1 References, Page 30:
- Polito JR. Freedom from Nicotine: The Journey Home, 2013; https://whyquit.com/ffn/index.html; accessed: September 14, 2017.
Link to the Surgeon General's full report:
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