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Study: Women Have More Difficulty Quitting Smoking [09/03-2]
Excerpts from: NEW REPORT SHOWS WOMEN HAVE PARTICULAR
DIFFICULTIES IN QUITTING SMOKING
Office of Tobacco Control
[09/02/03]
A new research report published today (Tuesday, 2 September) shows that women,
particularly older women, find it more difficult to quit smoking than men. According
to Dr Michael Boland, Chairperson of the Office of Tobacco Control (OTC), who
commissioned the research, there needs to be a concentrated and focussed effort
by all of those interested in women's health to develop effective smoking cessation
programmes specifically for women.
Dr Boland was speaking at the launch, in Dublin's Merrion Hotel, of Irish Women and Tobacco: Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs, the research for which was conducted by TNS mrbi. . . .
Dr Michael Boland said that this research, which is consistent with international findings, has implications for tobacco control policy and practice and that it is important to address the question as to why women are more likely to continue smoking than men.
Dr Harry Comber, Director of the National Cancer Registry, said that the OTC's report accurately highlights some of the problems being faced in trying to fight this epidemic.
"Smoking is not just a behaviour, but also an addiction, and one, apparently that women find harder to fight than men. . . .
The findings of the OTC's Irish Women and Tobacco Report suggest strongly that women need intensive, organised and prolonged support if they are to quit smoking, and that the nature of this support may be different from that needed by men."
Turning to the issue of lung cancer rates, Dr Comber said that estimates from the National Cancer Registry show that lung cancer is increasing by 3% a year in women.
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