Many People Want to Stop Smoking, Top 6 Percent of Success

New York, it's becoming Quitting smoking is the hardest thing to do nicotine addicts. Of the many people who want to quit smoking, there are only 6 percent actually succeed.

The new study by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underscores how difficult people to stop smoking. Of the 69 percent of smokers in the United States who want to quit, only 6 percent actually managed to do it.

According to studies, men and white women more easily quit smoking. But people who have higher education and seek help or take medication without regard to race is the most easily managed.

From the level of education, studies show that people with higher education have a success rate of 8.9 percent compared to people with low education are only 3.2 percent.

Whereas among black males, nearly 76 percent want to quit smoking and 59 percent have tried but only 3.3 percent are successful, the lowest rate for all ethnic groups.

Among all the people trying to quit smoking, studies show that success can be 2 or 3 times when with the help of medication or seek counseling doctor.

"Some fear that aggressive anti-smoking circles campaigned by making more smokers determined to quit. But from the results of this study show the opposite result. It convinced us the difficulty of making people stop smoking," explained Dr. Timothy McAfee, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on Smoking and Health, as reported by Dailymail, Monday (12/12/2011).