Long-term studies live 10 years longer through early smoking cessation

Dishonest smokers resist any argument. You even mean, "you have to die of something". The probability of a smoker dying from the consequences of his consumption is indeed great. According to several scientific papers, smokers live on average about 10 years less than non-smokers. Often, smokers die from lung cancer, COPD, stomach and colon cancer, stroke or heart attack. So the suffering is usually years, until death redeems the smoker.

According to the University of Oxford, "the study's key findings are that the risk of smoking is greater for women than previous studies indicate - but giving up smoking has greater benefits than previously thought." Up to ten Life expectancy among women could increase for years, if they have stopped working until the age of 39, that smokers have already reinstated, the researchers write.

It has long been known that smokers are subject to a significantly higher risk of infarction. One study has now found that this risk is greater among younger tobacco users. (Image: amixstudio / fotolia.com)

Smokers died around three times more often
In the largest British smoker study to date, researchers led by Professor Sir Richard Peto of Oxford University have studied the impact of tobacco use on women's life expectancy. For their studies, between 1996 and 2001, scientists recruited around 1.3 million women aged 50 to 65 years. The participants provided information about their lifestyle as well as medical and social factors in a questionnaire. Three years later they participated in another study.

For more than 12 years - from the time of the first survey - the researchers accompanied the volunteers and investigated the deaths that occurred. Of the participants, 20 percent were smokers at the beginning of the study, 28 percent were ex-smokers and 52 percent had never smoked, write Prof. Peto and colleagues. Women were still smokers in the second study after three years, they died on average three times more frequently than non-smokers in the next few years, according to the announcement of the University of Oxford.

Ten years of life can be gained through the smoke stop
The mortality statistics also showed that smokers who ceased tobacco use at the age of 30 increased their life expectancy significantly. "The largest study of smoking among women in the UK to date has shown that smokers lose at least 10 years of their lives," Oxford University adds, adding that stopping smoking before the age of 40 means avoiding 90 percent of the increased risk of death.

Thus, the researchers support the previous thesis that the organism after a certain period of time to recover from the damage of smoking reasonably. However, definitive evidence for this assumption is still pending and British researchers conclude that early cessation of tobacco use will have a much more positive effect than cessation of smoking in later life years. Professor Peto emphasized that "smokers who quit before reaching middle age gain an average of an additional 10 years of life." With a smoke stop later in life, the lifetime gained is significantly lower. (Fp)