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If I remember correctly, cold turkey has worse rates for initial quitting but the lowest rates of people returning to smoking for those who "made it"
by awinder 10y ago
If I remember correctly, cold turkey has worse rates for initial quitting but the lowest rates of people returning to smoking for those who "made it"
- gr3yh47 10y agoIIRC it has to do with the anguish of quitting - if you went through the difficulty and pain of quitting cold turkey you probably don't want that to be for nothing
- infogulch 10y agoSunk cost strikes again? This time for good.
- takingflac 10y agoI wouldn't say sunk cost so much as you now have a better understanding of what the price is now that you have paid it once.
- gozur88 10y agoCold turkey is how my dad did it after 40 years of 2 packs a day, unfiltered. He went through a couple weeks of hell, but as far as I know he hasn't smoked in 21 years.
- brokenmachine 10y agoI have worked with quite a few elderly people, and I've heard many stories of people just quitting cold turkey after many years of smoking, as soon as the catastrophic health effects became common knowledge. I think the older generation is just generally more accepting of discomfort than todays cream-puffs.