Being in the medical world, I am aware of the harmful effects of cigarette abuse. Using cigarette has been linked to almost all kinds of health conditions that’s why physicians will always ask whether or not the patient smoke.
However, even if the person stopped smoking for a healthier future, the person will still experience lots of complications. Also, researchers found that cigarette abuse may be linked to impairment in mental functions later on in life especially for women, although men are not entirely spared from this effect. The work was conducted on about 287 participants, aged between 31 and 60. Both males and females were analyzed, PhysOrg reports.
The negative effects were recorded mostly in the flow of thinking processes, and also in remembering things. Details of this investigation appear in the March issue of the respected scientific Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
According to the research team, women who had smoked a lot in the past were more likely than other females who had never smoked to perform worse on certain cognitive tests. The same relation was not found in men, the experts write. However, the study sample was fairly small, and so more work would be needed to validate these results. But the team still has no clue as to why such disparate results were obtained between alcohol and tobacco use. They expected the findings to be more in tune with each other, University of Iowa Department of Psychiatry assistant research scientist Dr. Kristin Caspers says.
She was the lead author of the new investigation, and also the leader of the group that made the study. The expert says that, in the case of smoking women, the cognitive abilities that had more to suffer included reasoning, planning and organizing. These are generally referred to “higher-order” brain functions, the investigators conclude.
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