How to help a friend quit smoking
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Although smoking has reduced massively over the last 70 years, worrying new figures show the boredom and stress of lockdown led to many more young people taking up the habit.
Research funded by Cancer Research UK found that during the first lockdown there was a 25 per cent increase in 18 to 34-year-olds who smoke, which translated into a rise of more than 652,000 young adults.
Bearing in mind that smoking rates had fallen from 82% in 1948 to 14.7 per cent in 2019, it’s a concerning trend – as despite life returning to nearly normal as pandemic restrictions end, once nicotine addiction has kicked in, it won’t be nearly as easy for new smokers to lose the cigarettes.
Action on Smoking and Health (Ash), says most smokers want to quit – in 2018 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found 58.4 per cent of adult smokers wanted to stop – but they find it tough to give up without help.
Ash say only about 5 per cent of unaided quit attempts result in smokers giving up for good, but quitti...
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