Also known as: quit smoking, tobacco cessation, stop smoking
Quitting smoking is the single highest-yield lifestyle change for smokers. Current smoking raises CVD mortality 2.3-fold and cancer mortality 3.4-fold. After quitting, most excess cardiovascular risk is eliminated within a decade.
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Nicotine electronic cigarettes result in increased quit rates compared to nicotine replacement therapy (NRT).
Telephone counseling increased continuous abstinence from tobacco by 43% compared to control across randomized controlled trials.
Smoking cessation is associated with marginal improvement in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) in patients with chronic respiratory diseases.
Study 2 (n=1,998) showed L-cysteine lozenge was more effective than placebo in intention-to-treat analysis, though the result approached but did not reach statistical significance.
Compared to never-smokers, recent quitters with weight gain have higher T2DM risk (HR = 1.61).