Exercising Even A Little Bit Makes It Easier For Smokers To Quit

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/04/20/151034356/exercising-even-a-little-bit-makes-it-easier-for-smokers-to-quit?sc=fb&cc=fmp

by Nancy Shute April 20, 2012

Smoking is bad. Quitting smoking is hard. But exercising can make quitting easier, and make sliding back into smoking less likely.

That's the word from a big new study, which tracked the health and habits of 434,190 people in Taiwan from 1996 to 2008. Smokers who got just 15 minutes of exercise a day were 55 percent more likely to quit than were people who weren't active at all. And those active smokers were 43 percent less likely to relapse when they did quit.