Health
COVID-19 has offered us an unexpected opportunity to help more people quit smoking – Micky News
Smokers are worried. A respiratory disease is running rampant across the globe and people with unhealthy lifestyle habits appear to be especially vulnerable. W
We know smokers hospitalized with COVID-19 are more likely to become severely unwell and die than non-smokers with the disease.
At any point in time, most smokers want to quit. But COVID-19 provides the impetus to do it sooner rather than later.
In our new study, we surveyed 1,204 adult smokers across Australia and the United Kingdom. We found the proportion intending to quit within the next two weeks almost tripled from around 10% of smokers before COVID-19 to 29% in April.
Many more were th…
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