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Smoking Lowers Cognitive Brain Function

July 08, 2012 By: Michael Category: Health

smoking cognitive declineThere are many reasons why people smoke, well, if you have a habit of smoking, you should stop now. There are many new ways to help quit smoking. Tobacco in cigarettes would reduce the function of the brain more quickly with age. The decline are even 10 years sooner than those who do not smoke.

Smokers are at risk of mental decline, mainly related to the ”executive” function in the brain. Compounds in cigarette tobacco causes cancer. The compound will enter the body and triggers white blood cells in the brain’s immune system to attack healthy cells in the brain.

According to Fox, a study in England found that the decline in cognitive function will appear at the early age of 45.

“Although we already know that smoking is the cause of respiratory disease, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, this study also indicate that smoking has a detrimental effect on cognitive aging,” said Severine Sabia, head of the research team at University College London.

In an interview published in the ‘Archives of General Psychiatry Journal’, she also describes the effects of cognitive decline are more experienced men. The study involved 5,099 men and 2,137 women.

“A male smokers aged 50 years showed the same cognitive decline as men age 60 who does not smoke,” said Sabia.

She also found that if men who quit smoking for 10 years, before the first study, still showed a degradation in the cognitive.

Sabia and her team, will conduct further studies on the difference in risk in men and women in this study. She will examine more deeply the mechanism of smoking and a greater risk in men.

For you who have trouble dealing with smoking addictions, it was known that vegetables and fruits are effective to overcome smoking addiction.

 

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3 Comments to “Smoking Contributes to Bleeding Strokes”


  1. I know in my family it is a very big health concern. My family has a history of cancer and heart problems and everyone has smoked. I have been smoke free for 2 yrs.

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  2. Very nice site you have here! I will visit more often. Thanks

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  3. i’m not smoker…

    info resep’s last blog post..Takoyaki

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