women benefit more from quitting cigarettes than menimproved lung function in women who stop smoking
New findings from the Lung Health Study (LHS) show
that, in general, the lung function in women improves significantly
more than in men after sustained smoking cessation. |
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Supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the study followed more than Five Thousand Three hundred middle-aged smokers for five years. All participants had mild or moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In the 1st year after quitting, women’s lung function improved more than double that of the men’s. Among those who quit, improved lung function remained greater for women than for men throughout the study, although the differences between the sexes narrowed over time. The drop in lung function in those who continued to smoke was on average similar for men and women. Cigarette smokers often say that smoking a cigarette helps them concentrate and that they feel more alert. But years of smoking tobacco can have the opposite effect, slowing the accuracy and speed of a person's thinking ability and lowering their IQ. |
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has observed in his years as a lung specialist at the University of
Michigan Health System.
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Vice President for Campus Life, Princeton University, Janet S.
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The Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are initiating a new
Tobacco-Free Sports public education program at the Paralympic
and Olympic Winter Games
Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to heart attack, stroke,
heart failure or kidney failure. This is why
high blood pressure is
often called the "silent killer." The only way to tell if you have
high blood pressure is to have your blood pressure checked.
Does banning smoking in
restaurants present any sort of economic risk? In areas where
smoking bans are already in place do people eat out less often, and
spend less money in restaurants?
Millions of Americans smoke
"low-tar," "mild," or
"light" cigarettes, believing those cigarettes to be less
harmful than other cigarettes. The evidence does not indicate a
benefit to public health from changes in cigarette design and
manufacturing over the last 50 years.
Three out of four smokers
in the United States say they want to quit, but less than 5% of
smokers who quit for at least a day are able to stay tobacco-free
for three to 12 months.
Women make up Thirty nine percent of all smoking-related
deaths every year in the United States.
The government is to provide
smoking cessation resources to the 46 million adults in the USA
who smoke, we can make an enormous improvement in public health."
A majority of smokers would like to quit smoking, and understand
that smoke exposure is a
hazard that must be regulated.
Coercive and critical approaches are rarely successful in
convincing
smokers to quit. These tactics tend to make smokers feel guilty,
defensive, inadequate and afraid.
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We can't say that we have found a cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and decreased thinking ability, or neuro-cognitive proficiency but we hope our findings of an connection will lead to further examination of this important issue.
Smokers should not believe that the tar and nicotine levels listed on a pack of cigarettes are what they are actually inhaling. The take-home message of this report is that the only proven way to reduce the disease risks associated with smoking is to quit.
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