Ditching cigarettes delivers 'immediate health boost'08 May 2008
Women receive an immediate health boost by kicking their smoking habit, experts have claimed.Dr Stacey Kenfield and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, claimed that women who quit smoking could significantly reduce the risk of death from heart disease within the next five years.Using data from the Nurses' Health Study, the report claimed that a 20 % lower risk of death from smoking-related cancers could be achieved by kicking the habit, while a 13 % reduction in the risks of all-cause mortality was observed within the first five years of quitting.The authors of the study wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Globally, approximately five million premature deaths were attributable to smoking in 2000. "The World Health Organization projects by 2030 that tobacco-attributable deaths will annually account for three million deaths in industrialized countries and 7 million in developing countries."Death due to respiratory disease could also be made 18 % less likely in the first five to ten years after quitting smoking, the report showed.Discuss this item in our forums
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