Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Racers wearing heavily padded gloves and shin protectors charge straight at hinged flag gates and bash them aside. Schneider took a slim lead after the first run but fretted that she had been too passive. She is a country mouse from the tiny village of Elm, who at 13 quit school and competitive skiing to keep house after her mother died. She lists her hobby as knitting. Now she psyched herself into a fury, slugged gates like a boxer on her second run and won her second gold, ahead of Yugoslavia's Mateja Svet. Only four other women alpine skiers...
...progress is really phenomenal," he says. "It really isn't that the federal government or the states have done anything--until the past two years. But the cities have, and now half of all men who smoked have quit. And two-fifths of the women who smoked have quit...
...things we study is relapse," Schelling says. "Everybody's got the word that smoking is bad, and all sorts of people are trying to quit. But if you do relapse, how do you recoup your morale and do it again? That's what we want to figure...
...called several hundred smokers to see if there are patterns with which people return to smoking if they have quit. Are there multiple attempts to quit? Do they just smoke on and off?" says Hitchcock, whose special interest is studying how smoking patterns have changed thoughout history...
...What we found was that there is substantial variation. The person's initial motivation to quit will determine the frequency with which they relapse. There is a complexity of problems--it's a very descriptive study," says Hitchcock, who used original as well as previously collected data to support her work...