Written by Stuart Stevens | Wednesday, 04 July 2007 | There are 0 comments
Research done in the United States of America and seen by Ukmedix News shows that younger people are far less likely to use drugs and other smoking cessation aids that can really help them quit their smoking habit, and that the older that people were when they tried to quit smoking the more likely they were to use a drug such as Champix or nicotine replacement patches.

The researchers divided the smokers into two different age groups. The first group were between the ages of eighteen to 24 and the second group of smokers were 25 and upwards. It was seen that the younger group reported that only seventeen percent of them had tried to use any smoking cessation aids whereas the older group reported that almost 1/3 of them had made use of the nicotine replacement patches for example to help them quit their habit. It is a well documented fact that by using some form of smoking cessation drug or remedy you double your chances of succeeding with quitting the smoking habit.
At Ukmedix News we have seen hundreds of research projects and reports on quitting smoking and we can say that the reason why the older people tend to go for these smoking cessation aids is that many of them have previously tried to quit and been unsuccessful and thus they tend to turn to these remedies to help them where they have previously failed.
Younger people on the other hand who are also more likely to be less addicted to smoking than older people and who have not been demoralised by repeated failure to quit smoking are thus less likely to need the smoking cessation aids. Also younger people are less likely to be experiencing illness as a result of smoking and therefore the desperation to quit smoking may not be as urgent as it is for older people.
The younger you are when you try to quit smoking the easier it is going to be and you should remember this if you are continuing to smoke in your thirties.
