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Smoking Makes You Old Before Your Time
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 Dr. David M. Burns, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and author of an accompanying journal editorial, said that smoking is no way to live.
"Many folks, particularly young folks, say, 'I want to live now, and I don't care if I die early when I'm old -- I really want to live hard, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse,'" Burns said. "That's not what smoking does to you. What happens is it makes you old before your time."
Smoking does not enhance your lifestyle, Burns added. "What it is, is a route to an early old age."
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Three additional reports in the same journal issue reviewed hospital programs that help people quit smoking and concluded that:
- Counseling patients on stopping smoking can be effective if there is follow-up for more than a month after hospital discharge, according to a Harvard report.
- Hospital smoking cessation programs included in referrals to cardiac rehab appear to increase the rates of quitting, according to researchers from Emory University in Atlanta.
- Paying clinics $5,000 to refer 50 patients to quit line programs appears to increase the number of referrals compared with clinics not offered the incentive, according to University of Minnesota scientists.
More information
For more on smoking, visit the National Institutes of Health.
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Last updated 10/15/2008
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SOURCES: Arto Y. Strandberg, M.D., University of Helsinki; David M. Burns, M.D., professor, medicine, University of California, San Diego; Oct. 13, 2008, Archives of Internal Medicine
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