Is Stress Relief Linked with Smoking Cigarette?
Published on June 21, 2010 8:05 AM
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Usually most of smokers smoke cigarettes for to calm their nerves. However a new study shows that after a person quit smoking, quit his stress levels.
This findings’ goal is to give smokers reinsurance that quitting will not make them more nervous.
Researchers enrolled in their study 469 smokers who attempted to kick the smoking habit after being hospitalized for heart disease. At the end of investigation they found that those patients who remained smoking abstinent for a year showed a limitation in their perceived stress levels. But stress levels were unchanged among heart patients who went back to smoking.
Approximately 85 percent of study participants said that they are sure that smoking can help them to deal with stress.
But one year later, the study participants were investigated again. Researchers observed that almost 41 percent had managed to remain abstinent. They showed that a 20 percent reduction in their reported stress levels, while patients who start again their smoking habit showed little change in their stress level.
"Cigarettes smokers often see cigarettes as an escape tool to control stress, this is the main cause why ex-smokers frequently return to their smoking habit in the belief that this will aid them deal with a stressful life event," said Peter Hajek, a professor at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK.
This recent study also has shown that non-smokers tend to report lower stress levels than smokers do.
The argues for that difference has been not clear yet, but it could mean that people exposed to stress are more likely to smoking than calm people. And of course they think that taking away that habit could worsen their stress level.
But health experts once again showed that smoking itself can generate long-term stress, even if people experience it and can temporary ease from trying situations.
So, these findings also supported the idea that dependency on smoking cigarettes is itself a chronic source of stress. How Mr. Hajek said: "A dependent smokers cannot resist without cigarettes a long period of time, so this is why they become irritable and uncomfortable, because they became addicted to nicotine."
Researchers concluded that if a smoker who smokes 20 cigarettes per day, for example, essentially goes through 20 fights of stress each day, as the levels of nicotine in the body decline. But in case that person quits he will have 20 fewer periods of stressing every day.
