A recent study by Oxford University shows that the quick break method is more effective, and the success rate is 25% higher than that of the slow break method. In this study sponsored by the British Heart Foundation, researchers recruited 697 smokers who wanted to quit smoking and divided them into two groups. One group is the "quick stop group", which chooses one day to stop touching cigarettes after quitting smoking. One group is the "slow-stop group", which chooses one day as the day to quit smoking and reduces smoking little by little in the two weeks before that.
The researchers published an article in the Chronicle of Internal Medicine, saying that although more people chose the slow-break group than the fast-break group, one month after quitting smoking, they found that 49% of the people in the fast-break group did not relapse, compared with 39% in the slow-break group. Mike Knapton of the British Heart Foundation said: Studies show that the most effective way to quit smoking is to quit smoking immediately.