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When is the best time to persuade smokers to quit? Right after a cancer diagnosis

When is the best time to persuade smokers to quit? Right after a cancer diagnosis:

Studies show that using the moment of diagnosis to initiate smoking cessation programs can help up to 70% of patients quit, she and her colleagues wrote, compared with the 20% success rate that is usual in the general population, the researchers argue.

I wonder if the same is true after a heart attack.

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