Denying the perception that smoking helps reducing stress, a recent study has revealed that, smoking has no relation with reducing stress. However, one who quits smoking feels less anxious afterwards.
A recent study conducted by the British researchers has revealed that, smoking does not relieve stress but quitting does.
The researchers examined the anxiety levels of approximately 500 smokers when they were used to smoking and after they tried to give up smoking.
One of every five smoker said that they smoked in order to relieve stress.
All the participants took part in the NHS smoking cessation programme in which they were given nicotine patches and asked to attend two-monthly appointments.
6 months later when the course was over, 68 of the 491 still restrained from smoking – and felt less anxious than they were before.
Moreover, participants who could not give up and failed were more stressed than they were in the beginning.
The researchers, from Oxford University and King’s College London, said that the belief that smoking to be stress-relieving agent was prevalent but certainly wrong.
They said it was true as smoking causes anxiety and smokers deserved to know this and understand how their own perception could be misleading.
Researchers believe the misconception has developed de to withdrawal effects of nicotine due to presence of edginess.
The details of the study have been published in British Journal of Psychiatry.
-With inputs from ANI
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