shows the definite link between bad memories and smoking in middle aged adults

Ukmedix News has been studying a French research project which has established a link between bad cognitive function and poor memory and smoking. These results arrive hot on the heels of another study reported by Ukmedix News which shows that overweight and obese individuals are also much more likely to suffer from cognitive problems, dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Another interesting fact you should be aware of is that smokers are more probable to be overweight or obese than normal weight individuals which disproves the theory that many people smoke in order to keep a limit on their weight.

Anyway the new study which was led by Professor Séverine Sabia from the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale in France and which was published by the respected medical journal the Archives of Internal Medicine shows the definite link between bad memories and smoking in middle aged adults. 

The researchers faced a difficult challenge because getting volunteers to turn up for visits (maybe they forgot he he) proved to be difficult and there was also a high dropout rate from the study due to death from smoking related diseases and severe illnesses.

The researchers got their information from over 10,000 civil servants living in London of the ages between 35 and 55. The study which was started between 1985 and 1988 looked at memory tests, reasoning, verbal fluency and vocabulary. Between the years of 1997 and 1999 the researchers continued to gather information and in 2004 more further results from now just over 4,600 participants was collected.

The researchers said that those people who had a poor vocabulary were seen to get better scores if they quit smoking during the study which goes to show that cognitive functions can actually be improved when you quit smoking. Those who continued to smoke always got the worst scores in the cognitive tests. The researchers also pointed out that the link between smoking and poor cognitive function could actually be under estimated because of the high risk of dropouts and death with smokers for this study.