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The differences werent overwhelming: at four weeks, 39.2% of the gradualists were no longer smoking, compared to 49% of the do-it-nowers

Just because you had a moment of weakness doesn't mean that you're a weak person and that you don't have the skills to quit

While I suggest in a comment at the PLoS ONE study site that we are seeing category crossover due to the studys dependency destroying definition of cold turkey ("gave up cigarettes all at once" instead of the actual definition, "abrupt complete cessation of the use of an addictive drug"), Table 7 footnotes indicate that there was also "missing data." Regardless, cold turkey crushed the competition

Heres what the American Cancer Society says about quitting, and the often-discouraging statistics: The truth is that quit smoking programs, like other programs that treat addictions, often have fairly low success rates

Thats the day to stop smoking completely