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As I understand it, smoking cessation programs have pretty bad success rates. An old article from JAMA [0] that seems to be one of the canonical papers in the f
by jonlucc 11y ago
As I understand it, smoking cessation programs have pretty bad success rates. An old article from JAMA [0] that seems to be one of the canonical papers in the field points out that only 23.6% of people in smoking cessation groups quit successfully. There may have been major advances since then, but I couldn't find new data quickly.
[0] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=381957 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=381957
- icebraining 11y ago23.6% doesn't sound so bad. How does it compare to people trying to quit without the program?
- themartorana 11y agoThose are a lot of lives saved.
- logfromblammo 11y agoI have heard that a wide variety of addictive behaviors have been successfully treated with psychedelics. Naturally, as most of them are schedule I substances, and thus not widely available for experimentation, sanctioned and reputable research on this matter is rather scarce. The [flawed] studies already in existence suggest that a single dose of LSD is more effective against alcoholism than an entire year of AA meetings. Anec-data from self-experimenters reporting online suggest that ibogaine interrupts the psychological component of heroin addiction and eases the acute physical withdrawal symptoms for several hours. Nicotine addiction seems especially tenacious, to the point where you have to pass the 3 year mark of continuous abstinence before anyone can even be 90% confident that you have quit for good. 90% of freshly resolved quitters relapse, most within 3 months. By those standards, 23.6% is great, but I wonder if that is evaluated at the 3 year mark, or at an earlier time, when the confidence that the person will not relapse is lower.