{"id":1176,"date":"2022-04-07T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2022-04-07T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:25:34","slug":"getting-not-ready-to-quit-smokers-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"Getting Not-Ready-To-Quit Smokers to Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JAMA (<em>Journal of American Medical Association<\/em>) just published research on this quit smoking project.&nbsp; After years of decline in the number of smokers in the US, sadly there is a major upsurge among American youth.&nbsp; Currently 14% of adults use tobacco (cigarettes or E. cigarettes) while 24% of teens do.&nbsp; The prevailing thought among psychologists has been that until a smoker is ready to quit the likelihood of motivating them or helping them is nil.&nbsp; The JAMA article reflects research into a new approach called brief abstinence games.&nbsp; Basically, the researchers asked smokers to \u201ctake a break\u201d.&nbsp; As a control group they used non-inhalation nicotine in the form of nicotine lozenges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers were pleasantly surprised that taking a break for a very brief time (a day or so) over a period of time led to 18% of the smokers quitting.&nbsp; This study was done in adults, not teens.&nbsp; So, the next project will be aimed at this younger population.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) just published research on this quit smoking project.&nbsp; After years of decline in the number of smokers in the US, sadly there is a major upsurge among American youth.&nbsp; Currently 14% of adults use tobacco (cigarettes or E. cigarettes) while 24% of teens do.&nbsp; The prevailing thought among psychologists has been that until a smoker is ready to quit the likelihood of motivating them or helping them is nil.&nbsp; The JAMA article reflects research&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=1176\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[567,20],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quit","tag-smoking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}