Let's Compare before and after smoking. The findings were announced shortly after the British government launched an anti-smoking ad campaign featuring images of people smoking with the tumor at the end of the cigarette.
Many smokers feel that habit relieve stress. However, not a few smokers who managed to kick the habit felt calmer.
The statement was obtained ssebuah research in the UK. Researchers from the British Journal of Psychiatry involving 500 smokers who menghentikak habit.
The researchers found significantly reduced anxiety levels in 68 smokers who had quit six months. The effect was much greater than those with psychiatric conditions and anxiety disorders than those who smoke for pleasure.
The researchers come from a number of universities including Cambridge, Oxford, and King's College. According to them, the findings should be used to convince the smokers who tried to quit that fear of anxiety levels if they no longer suck nicotine unfounded.
However, the study also said a failed attempt to stop smoking it seems to make people who already have mental disorders increased anxiety. For those who smoke just for fun, stop smoking did not change the level of anxiety.
Researchers say that those who smoke to dissipate stress, are more likely to smoke if the desire to smoke again appeared. With stops, they will also be spared from anxiety.