Support for new non smokers ( Archived) (38)

Mon Jun 9, 4:12 PM ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Middle-aged adults who smoke tended to perform poorly on tests of memory and reasoning compared to nonsmokers, adding to the list of reasons not to smoke, French researchers said on Monday.

Analyzing previously collected data on about 5,000 British civil servants, the researchers found those who smoked were more likely than people who never smoked to be in the lowest-performing of five groups in tests of memory, reasoning, vocabulary and verbal fluency.

Smoking was associated with mental decline in middle age, as it is with dementia and a host of physical ills later in life, they found.

"Smoking in middle age is associated with memory deficit and decline in reasoning abilities," concluded Severine Sabia and colleagues from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Villejuif, France.

Compared to smokers, people who said they had quit cigarettes were more likely to adopt healthier behaviors, such as drinking less alcohol, being more physically active, and eating more fruits and vegetables, Sabia reported in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.

The participants were aged 35 to 55 at the beginning of the study, which followed some subjects up to 17 years.

The study also demonstrated how difficult it can be to conduct long-term research on smokers: more than twice as many smokers as non-smokers refused to take the memory test again or were not able to be re-tested, in some cases because they died in the interim.

Quite how anyone smokes these days when the evidence is right there that is clearly not good for you is beyond me.I watched my mother die of the effects of smoking where she was down to 25 per cent of her lung capacity, and still she wanted to smoke!!!

Please everyone, for the sake of your health, you children and grand children, please give up the habbit before it makes you another statistic.It takes years of the back end of your life, ages you considerably, and costs you a fortune.

Please, pretty please with cherry's on top, give up.

Wow. This is a loaded topic. Some of the people I love the most in my life have chosen to smoke...both my sons, my dad, my best friend, and many more. I love them unconditionally, period. Their choice to smoke changes nothing. BUT...when I sat in a hospital waiting room waiting to see if my dad was going to live, watching my mom in so much grief...yeah, I was pissed. I want the people I love to stick around...I want the people I love to live full lives (and mindful's post clearly reveals that there IS a difference in quality of life, aye?). It's about love...not judgment.

no one is judging

its not a choice its an addiction
you dont stop til youre done
and not w/o detox and some tools

good lord

good for you queen of emotional acceptance


i mostly posted this for a forum member here who is in the process of quitting but i couldnt put her name in the title as thats against forum policy

a news article on a loooong term medical study
expanding on previously known FACTS shouldnt be considered a loaded topic...its just passed along as information

hi mf!!

good thread, even though it highlights the disadvantages of my addiction.

tried various things to quit smoking, but none seemed to work for me, as I'm still addicated!!

somebody recommended hypnosis to help me quit. still mulling on it though.

paul


hi EVE!!!!


yes in US there are 6% more chemicals in cigs than 2 yrs ago
there are over 2000 i think is the number of chemicals

but i am not makin this thread saying anything to anyone
except as i said to support a forum friend who is trying and doing well right now

its a serious addictionits seriously addictive
like heroin

so whatever-people do stuff
its ok

Gee.........love me?

hey indy

full life
full pants
whats the difference?

its all full



how are you doin grandpa??