Thursday, August 27, 2015

Quitting smoking after heart attack gives quick boost to mental health, quality of life

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/wuso-qsa082415.php

Public Release: 25-Aug-2015
Quitting smoking after heart attack gives quick boost to mental health, quality of life

Washington University School of Medicine

A new study shows that quitting smoking after a heart attack has immediate benefits, including less chest pain, better quality of daily life and improved mental health. Many of these improvements became apparent as little as one month after quitting and are more pronounced after one year, according to the research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

"Even in people who smoked and had a heart attack, we see fairly rapid improvements in important measures of health and quality of life when they quit smoking after their heart attacks, compared with people who continue smoking," said senior author Sharon Cresci, MD, assistant professor of medicine.

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