Health and Lifestyle by Brian S. Everitt

Author:Brian S. Everitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Smoking lowers risk of obesity; the nicotine in tobacco smoke is an appetite suppressant, a fact which tobacco companies used to target women in the 1920s. Smoking also might make food less tasty for some smokers, further curbing appetite. The inevitable weight gain upon quitting smoking is a major barrier in getting people to stop, second only to addiction.

Smoking lowers risk of death after some heart attacks; compared with non-smokers, smokers who have had heart attacks seem to have lower mortality rates and more favourable responses to two kinds of therapy to remove plaque from their arteries: fibrinolytic therapy, which is basically medication, and angioplasty, which removes the plaque by inserting balloons or stents into the arteries. Wanjek, however, points out there is a catch. The reason why smokers have heart attacks is that smoke scars the arteries, allowing fat and plaque to build up in the first place. So, one theory as to why smokers do better than non-smokers after such therapies is that they are younger, experiencing their first heart attack approximately 10 years before the non-smoker.

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