all heart attack patients should quit immediately.

A new study has quantified the beneficial effect of quitting smoking on your heart. The research led by Professor Yariv Gerber from Tel Aviv University shows that by cutting down by five cigarettes daily a person suffering from an acute heart attack reduced the likelihood of death by twenty percent. The research team also said that giving up smoking completely after a severe heart attack reduce the likelihood of death by almost 40 percent compared to those people who carried on smoking.

Other statistics that this research produced were that those people who quit before they actually suffered from a heart attack reduced the likelihood of death by 50 percent. While it is pretty obvious and well known that smoking reduces the chances of you suffering from a heart attack this research categorically proves that quitting after the heart attack greatly improves your chances of surviving. Many men and women who have been smoking all their lives like to believe that there is no point in quitting after they have suffered from the heart attack because they say that the damage has already been done and that there is nothing they can do about it now. This research shows that that is complete rubbish and that all heart attack patients should quit immediately.

The research was done by monitoring the smoking habits of over 1,500 men and women under the age of 65 and all of them were interviewed about how much they smoked over thirteen years. During this time over 400 of the volunteers died.

The sad fact is that the older you are the more difficult it is to give up smoking and the addictive nature of tobacco is so powerful that it continues to hold on to people despite the evidence which shows that it is killing them. The idea that you could continue to smoke after suffering from a smoking related heart attack seems ridiculous but at Ukmedix News we know how hooked some people are and how their addiction leads them to delude themselves.

This research which was partly funded by the Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research was published by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.