Your Health Library  What Do You Know About Quitting Smoking?
1. The risk for death by heart attack or coronary heart disease
decreases considerably how soon after you quit smoking? 2. What
percentage of smokers quit successfully with the help of a
physician or counseling program? 3. Which of these smoking-
cessation methods have proved the most successful statistically?
4. Besides increasing the risk of cancer, coronary heart disease
and respiratory disease, which other ill effects does smoking
have? 5. The chemical and behavioral processes that lead to
nicotine addiction are similar to addiction to which other drug
or drugs? 6. When did most current smokers start the habit?
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