{"id":24649,"date":"2016-03-18T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T09:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=24649"},"modified":"2016-03-18T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T09:06:37","slug":"this-is-the-best-way-to-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/this-is-the-best-way-to-quit-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO QUIT SMOKING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-holding-cigarette.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24650\" alt=\"man holding cigarette\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-holding-cigarette.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-holding-cigarette.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-holding-cigarette-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-holding-cigarette-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/man-holding-cigarette-70x53.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quitting cigarette smoking might be one of the hardest ordeals one could ever face, but surely, it isn\u2019t impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, when people want to quit smoking, they tend to stop gradually, but a research has found that it\u2019s the wrong way to go.<\/p>\n<p>A study by researchers from Oxford University looked at a sample of 697 smokers who wanted to quit smoking.<\/p>\n<p>The group was split into two. The &#8220;abrupt cessation group were given a date on which to stop smoking; the second group, the gradual cessation group, had to quit gradually over two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>After the supposed day of quitting, smokers from both groups were monitored weekly for the next four weeks, and after six months.<\/p>\n<p>After four weeks, 39% of the gradual cessation group were still not smoking, compared with 49% of the abrupt cessation group.<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s obvious that the best way to quit smoking is by stopping abruptly rather than gradually.<\/p>\n<p>The study was published in the latest journal of <i>Annals of Internal Medicine. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>S.O.Z<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quitting cigarette smoking might be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2584],"tags":[2838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24651,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions\/24651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}