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1、Failure to Kick Smoking Habit May Put a Drag on Social LifeNew study shows pattern of quitting cascades permeate social networksBy Nikhil Swaminathan ALL ALONE: A new study tracking health habits in a large social network over 30 years shows that people who smoke are on a track for social isolation.
2、 ISTOCKPHOTOSmokers who fail to kick the habit are not only hurting their bodies but may also be missing a chance to make new friends or, in some cases, keep old ones, according to new research.Researchers report in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that an analysis of more than 12,000 smok
3、ers (and their friends, families and colleagues) over a 30-year period shows that attempting to quit smoking can serve as a people magnet by becoming a phenomenon among social groups, like a gaggle of college students or co-workers at a small firm.According to the study, quitting often involves netw
4、orks of people who spread the word (and behavior) to other cliques with whom they interact. In a deep way, theres an association between you quitting and the quitting of people that are two to three degrees away from you, says study co-author Nicholas Christakis, a professor of health care policy at
5、 Harvard Medical School. People you dont know personally, their actions ripple through the network and affect you.Christakis says the effect triggers quitting cascades analogous to lights going out down the line on a power grid until ultimately it goes dark. The parts of the grid that are not affect
6、ed by the loss of power, as in an actual blackout, are usually those on the fringes of the webin a quitting cascade, it is those who continue to smoke.Richard Suzman, director of the division of behavioral and social research at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md., said the study sheds
7、light on ways to help smokers and other addicts break their habits. If decisions to quit cascade through social networks, he said in a statement, then this study has provided public health campaigns a powerful new methodology with which to influence behaviors.Christakis and colleague James Fowler, a
8、n associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, used data from subjects of the Framingham Heart Study, putting together a network consisting of 12,067 people, with each person being connected to several others through familial, work or social relationships. In
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