A new report in the Doctors’ Guide is entitled “Quitting Smoking Improves Lung Function Test Scores by More Than 15% in Less Than 2 Months”.
That is amazing and should give impetus to those who truly want to change their “life styles” in order to keep themselves alive. It is not useless to stop smoking because it has been going on so long or because you are no longer so young. The results can be seen much more quickly than thought.
The 14 July report noted
For smokers with asthma, quitting smoking can improve lung function test scores by more than 15% in less than 2 months.
The findings appear in the second issue for July 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society.
Neil C. Thomson, MD, of the Departments of Respiratory Medicine and Immunology at the University of Glasgow, and seven associates studied 11 asthmatics who continued to smoke and 10 who quit for six weeks. After only one week of no cigarettes, the researchers said that the lung function test results of the non-smoking patients had improved to a “considerable degree.”
