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'More than 40% of smokers tried to quit last year'
29 April 2008 13:38:40
More than 27,000 smokers and ex-smokers were questioned about their attempts to stop smoking in a series of surveys conducted each month from November 2006 to January 2008.
Eight per cent said they had attempted to quit as a result of smoke-free legislation introduced on July 1st 2007.
Successful attempts to give up smoking may also have financial benefits as Norwich Union recently advised that smokers planning to quit could see their monthly life insurance premiums cut by up to almost half by applying for life cover as non-smokers.
News Year's Eve proved to be the biggest motivation for quitting smoking, when more than one in ten smokers attempted to stub out for good.
Elspeth Lee, Cancer Research UK's head of tobacco control, commented: "It's good news that the smoke-free legislation, as well as protecting people from secondhand smoke, encouraged some smokers to quit.
"But with about ten million smokers in the UK, half of whom will die from a smoking related disease, we cannot be complacent."
According to the organisation, more than 33,000 people die from lung cancer each year - around one person every 15 minutes.
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