What's the difference between quilter and quitter?
Quilter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, quilts.
Example Sentences:
(1) King's Theatre , to Wed LG End Of The Rainbow, Northampton End of the Rainbow Returning one last time to the venue where it first began, Peter Quilter's play about the acting and singing legend Judy Garland at the end of her life as she attempts to make one last comeback at London's Talk Of The Town in 1968, certainly deserves its encore.
(2) Outcomes contradictory to Surwillo and Quilter (1964) and Quilter, Giambra, and Benson (1983) are reconciled through additional statistical analyses.
(3) Swartz was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Robert Swartz, a software executive, and his wife Susan, a knitter, quilter and fibre artist.
(4) Quilter's play is nothing special but it is made extraordinary by the performance of Tracie Bennett, who consistently gets the audience on their feet as the doomed former MGM star whose Yellow Brick Road is about to finally run out.
(5) However, Peter Quilter's script has fared less well, with Time Out New York dubbing it "a mawkish British spin on Garland", and the Hollywood Reporter claiming that his script "hits every obvious note except the pathos".
Quitter
Definition:
(n.) One who quits.
(n.) A deliverer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cross-sectionally, those who had never smoked, former smokers, quitters, and continuing smokers showed a gradient of decreasing FEV1, and all four smoking groups were significantly different from each other (P less than 0.05).
(2) Stepped-care antihypertensive therapy lowered diastolic blood pressure similarly for hypertensive quitters and nonquitters.
(3) Smokers requesting self-help materials for smoking cessation (N = 2,021) were randomized to receive (a) an experimental self-quitting guide emphasizing nicotine fading and other nonaversive behavioral strategies, (b) the same self-quitting guide with a support guide for the quitter's family and friends, (c) self-quitting and support guides along with four brief counselor calls, or (d) a control guide providing motivational and quit tips and referral to locally available guides and programs.
(4) At five years, mortality (adjusted by Cox analysis for baseline differences) was 22% for those who continued smoking and 15% for quitters.
(5) Variables identified with successful quitters and continuing smokers also were investigated.
(6) Regression analyses considering contextual-motivational factors for drinking showed that at Time 1 quitters were less likely than controls to have consumed alcohol during evenings out (p = .008), in family-home settings (p = .013), or for salutary reasons (p = .084); conversely, they were more likely to have consumed alcohol to reduce negative affect (p = .011).
(7) The Multiple Component Program had 61% who quit, the Relapse Prevention Program had 37%, and the American Cancer Society Quitter's Guide had 12%.
(8) Compared to 971 controls, quitters reported more drinking problems at Time 1; reducers reported higher consumption at Time 1, which was the only factor predictive of subsequent reduction (p less than .001).
(9) Three variables, moral attitudes, peer smoking and positive beliefs about smoking significantly discriminated continuing smokers from quitters at the three-month posttest.
(10) Self-quitters make up by far the largest proportion of ex-cigarette smokers, yet this population has not been extensively characterized to date.
(11) As the mortality rates of quitters begin to approach those for "neversmokers," contributions to the HI fund increase.
(12) Subjects who gained weight after cessation did not consume more calories but ate somewhat less protein and significantly more carbohydrate than quitters whose weights did not change.
(13) Compared to women who were smoking at the start of prenatal care, spontaneous quitters had been lighter smokers, were less likely to have another smoker in their household, indicated a stronger belief in the harmful effect of maternal smoking, had a history of fewer miscarriages, and entered prenatal care earlier.
(14) Although successful quitters tended to wait longer before attempting cessation, a comparison of the two groups was not statistically significant.
(15) Quitters are intermediate in cultural attitudes and stance.
(16) Also, pleasant emotional and physiological effects discriminated continuers from quitters.
(17) One month later, 79% of the quitters in the nicotine gum group still remained abstinent, compared with 54% in the control group (p less than 0.05).
(18) Thirty-six percent of the participants who were considered exsmokers of 6 months duration at the conclusion of the program in 1985 remained long-term quitters 5 years later.
(19) The salivary cotinine and expired-air carbon monoxide tests confirmed smoking cessation for 55% and 74%, respectively, of the proclaimed quitters.
(20) We do not want would-be quitters to be deterred from using e-cigarettes.