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Is It Easier to Give Up Sex
Than Cigarettes??
Mon Dec 9,10:15 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Most smokers in Europe would find it easier to give
up sex for a month than cigarettes and many view even bungee jumping or
parachuting as less difficult than kicking the habit.
A survey of more than 2,000
smokers published Monday showed just how addictive nicotine is when 62
percent of smokers in six European countries said they felt the New Year
is a good time to quit, but only three percent used it as a trigger to
stop.
"In every single
country the vast majority of smokers want to stop," Dr Alex Bobak,
of the anti-smoking group SCAPE, told a news conference to launch the
international poll.
"The motivation is
there but they don't go about it in the right way."
Nearly 80 percent of British
smokers, almost 70 percent in the Netherlands, France and Germany and
more than 55 percent in the Belgium and Spain would forgo sex rather
than live without cigarettes for a month.
Although 60 percent of
European smokers said they would try to quit if it affected their love
life, 35 percent of smokers admitted they have never attempted to stop
smoking.
Fear of health problems was
the biggest motivator to quit, followed by concerns for their family and
the cost of cigarettes but 62 percent who tried to quit began smoking
again within a month.
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