Are smokers who use medication to quit more successful than those who don't?

Are smokers who use medication to quit more successful than those who don't?

When we follow thousands and hundreds of thousands of people in clinical trials and public research on health, we find that people who try and quit on their own without really putting effort into it, learning what to do, getting self-help or group support, or individual counselling, or going to a health care provider, if they don't do any of those things and they just throw their cigarettes in the trash, get mad at themselves for smoking and say, "I'm going to quit! I'm going to use willpower!" without anything else, the quit rate at one year is only 5 percent. That means that there is a 95 percent failure. I would encourage anyone who's tried that once or more than once to really try more effective methods, because quitting on your own without help, with as serious an addiction as nicotine addiction is, is lethal. This is a disease that kills 50 percent of its users. If you have a disease that's 50 percent lethal, wouldn't you get the best help that you could to try and avoid that consequence? Go talk to your health care provider and get help.