Setting quit dates (video)
This video discusses how most successful ex-smokers defy conventional quitting advice telling them to don't quit cold turkey and to set a future quitting date.
Read Setting Quit Dates, the 2006 article that inspired the above video.
A 2006 study published in the British Medical Journal found that "Unplanned quit attempts were more likely to succeed for at least six months: among respondents who had made a quit attempt between six months and five years previously the odds of success were 2.6 times higher ... in unplanned attempts than in planned attempts."
I wrote a reply to the Journal that was posted on its response website. Here is a link to that reply:
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