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An article by Jane E. Brody in the New York Times.

Survey statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 70 percent of smokers say they want to quit and that 40 percent try to quit each year. But 80 percent of smokers who try to quit on their own relapse within a month, the data show, and only 3 percent remain former smokers at six months.

Though long called a lifestyle choice or pernicious habit, smoking is now widely recognized as an addictive disease comparable to alcoholism or heroin addiction.