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3/7/2008
British researchers found that smokers are more likely to quit if they are told how "old" their lungs are. The concept of lung age helping patients better understand how smoking damages health, researchers had already found, but that information is also effective in convincing smokers to quit. The study, in five general medical practices outside London, involved 561 long-term smokers older than 35. After 1 year, 13 percent of the smokers told their lung age had quit, while only 6 percent of people in the other group had stopped.
Source: Reuters Health
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