Quitting Smoking Statistics

Giving up smoking is one of the hardest things that most people have to go through and quitting smoking statistics bear this out. However, quitting smoking statistics vary from country to country and continent to continent with Asia and Africa trailing in the success rate of giving up. Read on for a collection of quitting smoking statistics, but here is your first statistic: one cigarette is too many, but a thousand are never enough.

Quitting Smoking Statistics

Quitting smoking statistics will vary from year to year and it is quite hard to gather them all together, but here are as many valid quitting smoking statistics that I have collected up to now:

• Chinese smokers smoke about 3,000,000 cigarettes a minute and just less than 90% of those smokers have no plans of trying to quit smoking any time soon. This is estimated to result in the deaths of about 100,000,000 smokers before their 30th birthday.
• Just over a quarter of a million people in the UK registered to set a quit-smoking date last year which is a decrease of 22%. After four weeks, just under half of them had successfully quit smoking, which is a decrease of 24% over the previous year.
• About one-seventh of the world's population smokes and the percentage is predicted to rise over the next 15 years despite all the anti-smoking campaigns being run in practically every country in the world.
• Cigarettes contain about 45 carcinogenic chemicals underscoring the negative health effects of smoking.
• Age proves to be a big factor in quitting. It seems that older people are more determined to quit: 33% of <18 as against 57% >60 are successful.
• Cigarette smoking will increase blood pressure and create nicotine addiction which is psychological and physical. Nicotine withdrawal symptoms are experienced by heavy smokers every morning. The definition of a heavy smoker is someone who needs to smoke within 30 minutes of waking up.
• More American women die annually from lung cancer than breast cancer.
• People smoke about 10,000,000 cigarettes a minute worldwide.
• Less than half of pregnant women who want to quit actually succeed.
• 67% of successful quitters used some form of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) about 4% just went pure cold turkey.
• Each normal cigarette contains about 8 milligrammes of nicotine, but only about a quarter of it gets through the filter.
• About half of all smokers who smoke for more than 20 years die of a smoking-related disease.
• Over 400,000 Americans die from smoking-related diseases every year.
• About 20% of young people start smoking - less than before, but more women are smoking now in the West than previously.
• About 200,000 American kids get respiratory diseases every year from secondhand tobacco smoke and it is thought that passive smoking is a major contributing factor to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or cot death.
• About 90,000 children start smoking every day globally.
• The majority of smoking is controlled by a few American, British and Japanese companies.
• Smoke from a cigarette smouldering in an ashtray contains far more toxins than exhaled smoke because it has not passed through a filter or a set of lungs.
• Less than a quarter of smokers believe that cancer, heart disease, lung disease and other problems can be a result of smoking.
• It is thought that every cigarette smoked reduces the smoker's life span by about five minutes.
• Cigarette filters take from two to ten years to biodegrade.
• Smoking low-tar or low-nicotine cigarettes makes little or no difference to the toxicity of smoking.