Stop Smoking A Social Phenomenon Contagious! :

Smoking is no longer fashionable as a smoking cessation undertake alone in his corner. Now, this group is between spouses, friends or colleagues that you quit smoking and that we encourage. In other words, every person who quit smoking in your entourage increases from 25 to 67% chance of your own break with tobacco.

Now, you stop smoking group! 


The cigarette out of favor: in thirty years, smoking people aged 40 to 50 years has decreased dramatically from 66% in 1971 to 22% in 2003 (according to the Framingham study). The circumstances of the arrest have also changed. Previously, we stopped only by putting himself away from his friends and especially not smoking at the same time as her husband for fear of creating marital problems because of mood swings, irritability candidate at weaning. Today, it is no longer the case as shown by the results of a study focused on the Framingham cohort called (12,000 Americans followed for more than 30 years). Conversely, smokers quit in groups, motivate and train couples, friends, colleagues, as if smoking cessation was now a contagious and rewarding act.

Smoking cessation with friends or family 


A woman who stops smoking decreases by 67% the risk that her husband continues to smoke. If it is a brother or sister who stops smoking, the risk of continuing to smoke decreases by 25%. If it is a friend, the risk decreases by 36%. And finally whether it is a colleague in a small business, the risk decreases by 34%. Except in a couple, the influence of friends is very strong. It also notes that it is particularly important that the level of education is high. However, it is not observed among immediate neighboring geographical area. So today, stop smoking together, highlighting considerable influence relatives on smoking. This finding suggests that the tobacco is not a social vector. This is inversely smoking cessation has become a means of socializing, at least in adults over forty.

10 tips to help a friend: smoking cessation 

The National Institute for Prevention and Health Education (INPE) has already integrated the concepts of solidarity in its advice to encourage the judgment: 

1. Speaking to his family, to his colleagues. 

2. Finding the right words, the right thing. 

3. Being available. 

4. Listening to their concerns. 

5. Taking regular news. 

6. Provide economic arguments. 

List the health benefits 7.. 

8. Enhancing their efforts. 

9. Enjoying good results. 


10. Disseminate stress management techniques.