Women Who Quit Smoking Improve Health Immediately

Boston (dbTechno) - According to a new study, people who are able to quit smoking improve their health immediately. They lower their risk of death, and also erase their past history of smoking in a sense by living a much healthier life.

The study was carried out by researchers at Harvard medical school in Boston. Researchers looked at more than 100,000 women between 1980 and 2004. The data came from those who took part in the Nurse’s Health Study.

The study found that within five years, the risk of death among those who quit smoking fell by 13%.

In 20 years, the risk of death from their history of smoking was completely erased.

There was also great benefit found when people did not start smoking until a later age.

Women who began smoking at 17 were 22% more likely to die during the study period compared to women who started smoking at the age of 26 or older.

Other revelations include the fact that the risk of death from respiratory disease dropped 18% between 5 and 10 years after quitting smoking. It was also noted that the risk of death from lung cancer dropped by 21% within 5 years of quitting smoking, and 87% after 20 years or so.

The authors of the study stated “Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.”

They also cited that on a global scale, in 2000 alone, there were five million premature deaths linked to smoking.

The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.