Cold turkey is the best way to stop smoking, study reveals

Want to stop smoking, but don't know how? Well, according to a new study, the secret to help you stop smoking is to just stop smoking. Yes, you read right. Researchers believe going cold turkey, as in not smoking any cigarettes at all, is the best way to quit.

This was revealed in a new study which was done on 700 long-term, heavy smokers in England.

According to the study, 49 of the participants who abruptly quit smoking were not smoking after one month, while 39% in the gradual-quit group did not stop.

A researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford in England said cold turkey should always be used as the first option given to those wanting to quit smoking.

"Health care workers should offer abrupt quitting first, but if that is not an option, gradual quitting can be a second-line approach. We understand that people might be dead set against quitting abruptly so if the only way they would consider quitting is gradually then the results of this trial suggest it shouldn't be ruled out," he told CNN.

If you are still not convinced by the study, the man in the below video proves that going cold turkey works.