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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 22 > Want to quit smoking? Research finds you’ll do better in a group

Want to quit smoking? Research finds you’ll do better in a group

By Gina Kolata / The Bulletin
May 22, 2008

For years, smokers have been exhorted to take the initiative and quit — use a nicotine patch, chew nicotine gum, take a prescription medication that can help, call a help line, just say no. But a new study finds that stopping is seldom an individual decision.

Smokers tend to quit in....

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