Happiness and Smoking Cessation among Parents

What is it about?

The majority of parents report feeling happier after quitting smoking. Happier quitters had engaged with evidence-based cessation assistance, attributed greater personal meaning to quitting smoking, set goals to maintain smoke-free homes and cars and reported higher amounts of abstinence self-efficacy.

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Why is it important?

This is the first study to demonstrate parents feel happier after quitting smoking and appears to debunk the widely held belief that quitting smoking is a negative mental health experience.