Monday’s No. 1 for Quit-Smoking Searches
People are most likely to think about quitting smoking on Mondays, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at Google searches between 2008 and 2012. They looked at searches done in English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian. They found that people searched for information about quitting smoking more often early in the week. The peak occurred on Mondays for 4 of the languages. Mondays lagged a bit behind Sundays for Chinese and Russian searches. Â For all 6 languages combined, Monday searches totaled 25% higher than those for the average day during the rest of the week. Searches declined steadily after Monday before rising again on Sundays. Researchers said they aren’t sure what the pattern means. But they said it might be helpful in figuring out the best days to target quit-smoking messages.