Do you know that there is a relation between smoking and making friends? Recently , the researchers in The New England Journal of Medicine reported that smokers who fail to kick the smoking a bit out of their lives, would have a bad chance to make new friends, or in some cases keep old ones. The research took sample of analysis from more than 12,00 smokers plus their families, friends, and relatives. In vice versa, attempting to quit smoking can serve as a magnet by becoming a phenomenon among social groups, like a gaggle of college students, or co-workers at a small office.
According to the study, quitting often involves networks of people who spread the word (and behavior) to other cliques with whom they interact. “In a deep way, there’s 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 Harvard Medical School. “People you don’t 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 affected by the loss of power, as in an actual blackout, are usually those on the fringes of the web—in a quitting cascade, it is those who continue to smoke.
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