 the idea they were sick quitters. So Fillmore focused on how the data had been categorized in these studies. And she told him that they often included a category of people called abstainers, people who didn't drink, but that this category also included a group of people who drank and stopped. And they didn't take into account the fact that many of the people in this group likely stopped because they were ill. In fact, Tim calls them the sick quitters.