About a third of smokers will quit smoking this year for good—or so say smokers.
A new poll from Legacy, a national tobacco education foundation, finds 34 percent of smokers plan to quit smoking as a New Year's resolution in 2013. Among survey respondents, 18 percent reported that quitting smoking was a New Year's resolution in 2012.
Though concerns about the health risks associated with smoking was prevalent, as cited by 58 percent of smokers, even more smokers cited the increasing costs of cigarettes (67 percent) as the main factor motivating them to contemplate quitting.
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