Quitting smoking is a very good thing from every point of view, that’s indisputable.
But to what extent can the body
“forget”
the harmful effects of smoked cigarettes and reset the counters to zero?
A large study just published in the scientific journal
NEJM Evidence
sheds new light: people who quit smoking before entering their forties can expect to live as long as those who have never smoked, even if the stigma of smoking on the organism does not disappear completely.
A new reason to try to overcome this difficult milestone as soon as possible.
To carry out this work, researchers analyzed the health data of nearly 1.5 million people followed for 15 years, residing in four countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Norway). .
They calculated that the risk of dying before age 79 for smokers is almost three times greater than for people who have never smoked, which is…
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