A school nurse conducts a "quit smoking" program for high school students during which 100 students quit smoking. Of these, the nurse projects the number of students who will relapse to be:
a. less than 20
b. about one-third
c. one-half
d. more than 70
D
Failure rates for organized quitting (efforts to bring a cohort of people through cessation efforts together) are very high. Frequently 70% to 80% of these individuals will relapse.
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