Spending a cigarette shortens your life by 20 minutes...If you quit smoking for a year, live 50 more days
Dec 30, 2024
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A pack of 20 cigarettes reduces life expectancy by 7 hours.
Researchers at University College London said they obtained this estimate after conducting a life-saving study due to smoking at the request of the UK Department of Health.
The findings are up from previous studies that estimated that a cigarette shortens a smoker's life by 11 minutes.
According to the researchers, if smokers who smoke 10 cigarettes a day quit smoking from January 1st to January 8th, their life expectancy will increase by one day. If you keep quitting smoking until February 5, you can live another week. In addition, the researchers argued that smoking cessation for one month by August 5 and one year by the end of the year will allow them to live about 50 days longer.
The researchers emphasized that the damage caused by smoking is 'accumulated', and that the sooner you quit smoking, the longer you will live.
In addition, the researchers "In general, smokers lose as healthy a lifespan as their total lifespan. For example, a 60-year-old smoker would have a health situation similar to that of a 70-year-old non-smoker."
Lead researcher Dr Sarah Jackson said "It is important for people to understand how harmful smoking is and how quitting smoking can improve health and life expectancy."
Then "The sooner you quit smoking, the healthier and longer you live. "If you quit smoking regardless of your age, your health will improve significantly and the effects will appear almost immediately," he said, adding that "with the help of smoking cessation products and treatments, you will be able to quit smoking more easily.'
The findings were published in the journal 『Journal of Addiction』.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
