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What quit-smoking aids are most likely to get you to stub out for GOOD?

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QUITTING smoking is never easy, but a team of researchers have unveiled the aids most likely to make you quit.</h3>
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From hypnotism to chewing gum - there are plenty of methods and techniques aimed at helping a smoker try and stub out the habit, but with so many available it might be confusing as to which one to choose.</div>
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Scientists set out to discover the answer and have revealed the most effective three stop-smoking aids.</div>
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The nicotine patch, the prescription drug varenicline and combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) were all listed as equally effective and only small differences were measures between the three.</div>
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At 12 months, 20.8 per cent of patch wearers were clean of smoking in the past seven days, 19.1 per cent of varenicline takers and 20.2 per cent of those on NRT.</div>
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Despite this good news, those taking varenicline were more likely to experience side-effects, and participants recorded insomnia, constipation and indigestion.</div>
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The authors say that their study suggests nicotine patches are just as effective as prescription drugs.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicotine patches were found to be marginally the most effective</td></tr>
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They added: “The results raise questions about the relative effectiveness of intense smoking pharmacotherapies.”</div>
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The study involved over a thousand smokers who were given one of the cessation aids for 12 weeks. After six and 12 months, participants reported their success rate and underwent carbon monoxide testing.</div>
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The NHS say giving up smoking is the biggest single step you can take to improve your health. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quitting smoking dramatically reduces your heart disease risk</td></tr>
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After just three months, they say your breathing will have improved and by one year your risk of heart attack and heart disease will have fallen to about HALF that of a smoker.</div>
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If you want to quit you can either contact the NHS Stop Smoking Service or contact your GP.</div>
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The research will be published in JAMA.</div>
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What quit-smoking aids are most likely to get you to stub out for GOOD?

QUITTING smoking is never easy, but a team of researchers have unveiled the aids most likely to make you quit. Common cessation ...

Children should be treated like SMOKERS to stop them eating sugar, new study suggests

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RESEARCHERS claim to have found a single, foolproof way to stop children consuming dangerous levels of sugar – by putting cigarette packet-style warnings on labels.</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scientists say warning labels may deter parents from buying sugar-laden drinks</td></tr>
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Researchers have found health warnings, such as highlighting that too much sugar increases the risk of diabetes, has powerful effect on whether parents purchase sugar-sweetened beverages for their children.</div>
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They claim 75 per cent of people would support sugar-sweetened beverage warning labels on containers.</div>
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Researchers at Penn Medicine said regardless of a parent’s level of education, nutrition labels indicating the dangers of high sugar content made the parent significantly less likely to buy the sugary product.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">60 per cent of parents in the groups exposed to health warning labels avoided buying the sugary drink</td></tr>
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Specifically, labels that warned of obesity, diabetes and tooth decay were the ones most likely to encourage parents to put the beverage back on the shelf - but the researchers found simply the presence of a label was enough of a deterrence.</div>
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Haleh Moravej , Senior Lecturer of Nutritional Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University, explains that whilst scare tactics are one strategy to tackle the issue of childhood obesity, it only offers us one piece of a complicated puzzle.</div>
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She said: “Obesity is a combination of several factors such as lifestyle, psychological, diet and activity that are contributing to the children’s growing waistlines. We need to create healthy environments and healthy food choices for adults and children.</div>
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“Maybe we could think of creative tactics rather than scare tactics. We could be marking the sugar calories and how long it takes to burn them in a creative clear visible place and in that way change can be more meaningful and long lasting as well as educational.”</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nutrition labelling could be a tactic in beating childhood obesity</td></tr>
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In the study, 60 per cent of parents in the groups exposed to health warning labels avoided buying the sugary drinks, compared to 40 per cent of the parents who looked at drinks without any nutrition labels.</div>
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With obesity levels on the rise and the rising evidence about the danger of sugar, the study’s lead author Dr Christina Roberto an assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at Penn Medicine mentioned this research has come at a very important time.</div>
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She said: “In light of the childhood obesity epidemic and studies suggesting that more than half of children under the age of 11 drink sugar-sweetened beverages on a daily basis, there is a growing concern about the health effects associated with consumption of these beverages.</div>
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"Regardless of the specific wording, results show that adding health warning labels to SSBs may be an important and impactful way to educate parents about the potential health risks associated with regular consumption of these beverages, and encourage them to make fewer of these purchases.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drinks, in particular, often contain many teaspoons of hidden sugar</td></tr>
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"The findings are in line with similar studies conducted on the effects of warning labels on tobacco products, which have been shown to increase consumer knowledge of health risks related to tobacco use, and encourage smoking cessation.</div>
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"We can now say that warning labels have the potential to educate parents and motivate behaviour change when it comes to purchasing SSBs, which could help gain support for bills requiring labels to be added to beverage containers.”</div>
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Just this week a study announced fizzy drinks may dangerously increase the amount of visceral fat around vital organs.</div>
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It also coincides with the pressure mounting on the UK government to impose a sugar tax in the midst of an obesity crisis.</div>
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HEALTH WARNING: New home owners could be at risk from THIRD-HAND smoke

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HOME owners who want to buy a property from a smoker could increase their risk of cancer through exposure to THIRD-HAND smoke, a new study has suggested.</div>
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Scientists have found that toxic chemicals from third-hand smoke could be lingering in properties long after a smoker has left.</div>
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And simple cleaning was ruled to be ineffective in banishing the chemicals, which were found in the study to be almost impossible to remove from carpets, curtains and walls.</div>
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While the levels of chemicals "may be quite low in third-hand smoke" scientists suggested they could become "dangerous when you have chronic exposure".</div>
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Worryingly for parents, they added that youngsters who are prone to putting things in their mouth could be most at risk from of exposure.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Third-hand smoke could be absorbed into almost any porous surface</td></tr>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">“These volatile compounds soak into the drywall. Gypsum is like a bottomless pit for these toxins. Carpets are tremendous reservoirs."</section><section class="text-description">The latest health warning came following a study of third-hand smoke in different environments.</section><section class="text-description">Dr Eunha Hoh, an environmental chemist, said: "Cigarette smoke is known to contain thousands of chemicals, and these chemicals get deposited onto surfaces.</section><section class="text-description">"A great many of them are known to be toxic and carcinogenic.</section><section class="text-description">"The levels of these chemicals may be quite low in third-hand smoke residue, but they are dangerous when you have chronic exposure."</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">The scientists found that compounds could become harmful the longer they linger in the environment.</section><section class="text-description">A link was also discovered between third-hand smoke and the existence of "extremely hazardous" carcinogenic compounds.</section><section class="text-description">Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are thought to increase cancer risk and can also spark asthma attacks.</section><section class="text-description">Dr Penelope Quintana, an environmental health scientist, said that simple dusting or vacuuming did not get rid of the danger, nor did painting over residue-stained walls.</section><section class="text-description">She said: "We were really surprised by how persistent the contamination is in the home, even months after people have stopped smoking in it."</section><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script>

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IT TAKES a healthy pair of lungs and strong legs to run 400 metres in under 45 seconds. But that’s just what Iwan Thomas did in July 1997, when he set a British record which still stands nearly 20 years later.</div>
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So it’s a painful experience for such a supreme athlete to watch a loved one struggle for breath simply walking around the house.</div>
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Last year Iwan’s mother Ann was diagnosed with a condition called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (also known as COPD). This little-known term describes illnesses that devastate the lungs such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis.</div>
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Smoking is the biggest cause but experts fear that public awareness of the condition is low.</div>
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It seems tobacco users who may be conscious of the risks of lung cancer are largely ignorant of the similar dangers from COPD.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iwan broke the 400m record in July 1997</td></tr>
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Lung tumours kill an estimated 28,000 men and women in England every year. COPD is thought to be close behind – killing around 25,000 a year and blighting the lives of around one million people.</div>
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The British Lung Foundation says although the vast majority of cases are smoking related, COPD can be triggered by other things.</div>
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It says: “People who don’t smoke but have long-term severe asthma can also get COPD. It can also be caused by long-term exposure to air pollution, fumes and dust from the environment or your place of work.”</div>
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Former Strictly Come Dancing contestant and TV presenter Iwan, 41, from Southampton, is backing a new campaign by Public Health England to raise awareness of the condition and to encourage more smokers to quit in the New Year.</div>
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“I’d never heard of COPD until mum was diagnosed,” says the former European and Commonwealth 400m champion, who represented Great Britain at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.</div>
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“She smoked from a very young age, probably her early teens. And when I was growing up she was a heavy smoker, maybe even having as many as 40 a day.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iwan Thomas with former Strictly Come Dancing partner Ola Jordan</td></tr>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">“The only positive thing that came out of it was that it put me off smoking altogether. I have never even taken a single drag.</section><section class="text-description">“I wanted to be an athlete but I didn’t start running until I was 17 and even before that I never felt any temptation to smoke.”</section><section class="text-description">Ann, 72, was careful not to jeopardise Iwan’s sporting ambitions by exposing him to smoke in the house, normally lighting up outside or when he was not around.</section><section class="text-description">Iwan says: “In the 1970s and 1980s smoking was the norm but mum would try and shield me from it. She never smoked at the dinner table or blew it in my face.</section><section class="text-description">“But I always hoped that she would quit.”</section><section class="text-description">When Iwan’s dad Cliff rang to say he had bad news about his mum’s health, Iwan feared the worst.</section><section class="text-description">“Dad said she was unwell as a result of smoking and I instantly thought she had lung cancer.</section><section class="text-description">“I was really worried about her.”</section><section class="text-description">Iwan admits he was initially relieved his mother was cancer free.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">But the sprinter recently discovered how COPD can be just as much of a death sentence for some sufferers.</section><section class="text-description">The condition causes extreme breathlessness, a persistent cough and frequent chest infections.</section><section class="text-description">Doing housework, gardening or popping to the shops can become herculean tasks.</section><section class="text-description">During a visit to the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, Iwan discovered first hand what it feels like to have the lung disease.</section><section class="text-description">He donned a special mask that makes breathing more difficult, along with a high-tech corset that squeezes the chest to duplicate the effort needed just to inhale air.</section><section class="text-description">   </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">“It was truly terrifying. I couldn’t even walk up the stairs because I was so out of breath. I’m still in pretty good shape and live in a four-storey house so I run up and down stairs all the time.”</section><section class="text-description">Dr Nick Hopkinson, a consultant in respiratory medicine at the Royal Brompton, says many patients are only diagnosed years after symptoms first appear.</section><section class="text-description">“One of the biggest problems is that it sneaks up on people. Most of those diagnosed in their 60s or 70s would first have noticed symptoms 10 or 15 years earlier.</section><section class="text-description">“It is often dismissed as smoker’s cough or as a symptom of getting older. But it’s not normal to get breathless as you age. The trouble is these people can look quite normal while sitting still, so you wouldn’t necessarily know that anything is wrong with them.</section><section class="text-description">“It’s only when they try to exert themselves that it is noticeable. This condition kills people – in fact it’s the third biggest cause of death in the world, after heart attacks and strokes.</section><section class="text-description">“Yet in the UK there is a serious lack of awareness of it,” says Iwan who hopes the campaign will save smokers from the terrifying diagnosis his mum received.</section><section class="text-description">She has finally quit smoking and he is urging others to do the same.</section><section class="text-description">Iwan adds: “It can add years to your life and life to your years.” </section><section class="text-description"><strong>? Visit <a href="http://nhs.uk/smokefree" target="_blank">nhs.uk/smokefree</a> for help and advice on giving up smoking.</strong></section><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script><div class="p402_hide htmlappend">
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WOMEN are at high risk of infertility and an early menopause even if they DON’T smoke, frightening research has found.</div>
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Women exposed to first AND second hand smoke may be at greater risk of the conditions, with infertility rising by up to 18 per cent for women with the highest levels of passive smoking, according to a groundbreaking new study.</div>
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Although tobacco use has previous been associated with infertility issues and earlier menopause, this is one of the first studies to explore the effects of smoking AND passive smoking on women’s fertility in greater detail.</div>
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Researchers analysed tobacco exposure of 93,676 women aged 50-79. </div>
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The women were asked whether they has ever smoked and, if so, at what age, how many years they had smoked and how many cigarettes they had each day.</div>
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Women who had never smoked were asked to provide details about whether they had ever lived with a smoker, or exposed to tobacco smoke in the workplace.</div>
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Fertility data was then collected from the women and their partners, as well as information about natural menopause.</div>
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Worryingly, the study highlighted that women with the highest levels of passive smoking - living with a smoker in childhood for at least 10 years, working with a smoker for at least 10, or living with a partner who had smoked for 20+ years, meant a raised infertility risk of a huge 18 per cent.</div>
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Compared to non-smokers, the team found that the female smokers or ex-smokers were 14 per cent more likely to experience infertility issue and a quarter more likely to experience early menopause, before the age of 50. </div>
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The women who smoked the most - before the age of 15 - experienced menopause an average of 22 months before non-smokers, not exposed to passive smoking.</div>
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Women who smoked a minimum of 25 cigarettes daily had menopause 18 months before non-smokers.</div>
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They also discovered that those exposed to the most secondhand smoke experienced menopause over a year before they turned 50.</div>
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Researchers took many other influential factors in to account, such as body mass index (BMI), physical exercise, exposure to insecticides, oral contraceptive use and age of starting their first period.</div>
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The authors said: "It is one of the first studies of this size and statistical power to investigate and quantify active and passive smoking and women's health issues. It strengthens the current evidence that all women need to be protected from active and passive tobacco smoke.”</div>
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The findings have been published in Tobacco Control.</div>

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SIDE EFFECTS OF SMOKING: SMOKING - SMOKING accelerates normal brain ageing in ways that can impair thinking skills such as planning, decision-making and problem-solving, research has shown. </div>
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The good news is that it might be possible to reverse the harmful effects by giving up the habit, even late in life, say scientists.</div>
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Researchers analysed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scan data on 504 men and women with an average age of 73.</div>
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Around half the participants were former or current smokers while the rest had avoided tobacco all their lives.</div>
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The
 findings showed that smoking appeared to increase the rate at which the
 outer layer of the brain, or cerebral cortex, thins with age.</div>
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This
 is the part of the brain linked to many higher functions, and plays a 
key role in memory, attention, language and awareness.</div>
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 scientist Professor Ian Deary, director of the centre for cognitive 
ageing at the University of Edinburgh, said: "It is important to know 
what is associated with brain health in older age and our study shows 
that the rate of smoking-related thinning to the brain is approximately 
twice the rate observed in previous, smaller studies.</div>
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"However, at the 
same time, our study also suggests that stopping smoking might allow the
 brain's cortex to recover some of its thickness, though we need to 
conduct further studies to test this."</div>
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            Avoiding smoking is the best way to reduce the risk of brain decline, dementia and other cognitive diseases        </div>
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Professor James Goodwin</div>
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Study 
participants who had given up smoking some time ago seemed to have a 
thicker cerebral cortex than more recent quitters, suggesting that they 
had experienced some degree of recovery.</div>
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The 
research, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, is part of The 
Disconnected Mind, a larger project investigating brain ageing funded by
 Age UK.</div>
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Professor James Goodwin, chief 
scientist at the charity, said: "We all know smoking is bad for our 
lungs and heart, but it's important we also understand just how bad it 
is for our brain. This study shows how smoking speeds up the decline of 
the important thinking skills we rely on - in a sense accelerating brain
 ageing - in addition to increasing the risk of dementia and many other 
illnesses.</div>
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"While
 avoiding smoking is the best way to reduce the risk of brain decline, 
dementia and other cognitive diseases, this study gives new hope that 
quitting smoking, even in mid-life, can bring important benefits to the 
brain, as well as the rest of the body.</div>
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"With 
research suggesting that older people's fear of developing dementia 
outweighs that of cancer, it is important we inform people about the 
simple steps they can take to safeguard against this horrible and 
distressing disease. Brain decline is not an inevitable part of ageing, 
it is something we can protect ourselves against by making changes to 
our lifestyle - with avoiding smoking being one of them."</div>
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