Does Quitting Smoking Cause Poor Mental Health?

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When people quit smoking, it was associated with mental health improvements. E the benefits from quitting smoking could be as large as taking into te pressence. We know that smoking causes inflammation in the body which can also affect the brain and mood. So what we've hypothesized is that it's through nere transmitters pathways. What smoking does as it interacts with nerv transmitter systems,. That they can't function properly than what happens as you experienced increased periods of low mood, anxiet, et cetera.

According to some estimates smoking causes one in 10 deaths worldwide. A lesser known side-effect of cigarettes is the damage they cause to our mental health. Yet, the rates of smoking among people with mental health conditions are much higher than the rest of the population. Last week, the UK government published the Khan review, an independent report looking at how England could become smoke free by 2030. One of the recommendations was to tackle the issue of mental health and smoking. Madeleine Finlay speaks to epidemiologist Dr Gemma Taylor about how significant this link is, what we can do to break it, and how to dispel the myth that smoking is a stress reliever. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod