Quit Smoking to Quit Alcohol

“For smoking alcoholics it is difficult to quit drinking until they quit smoking”, say researchers.

According to researchers from department of radiology at the University of California, “Nonsmoking alcoholics showed a significantly greater level of recovery than smoking alcoholics in the areas of mental efficiency, higher-level reasoning and problem-solving, visual-spatial processing skills, and working or short-term memory”.

According to estimates 50-90 percent of people in North America getting treatment for alcoholism are also smokers. According to the previous research alcoholics who smoke have poorer cognitive skills than nonsmokers, when they are still drinking actively or after a short period of not drinking.

“The mortality associated with cigarette smoking is nearly 4 times greater than the mortality related to alcohol-induced diseases. Chronic smokers getting treatment for alcoholism should also participate in a smoking-cessation program”, say researchers.

Anyway, more research needs to be done to find out the effectiveness and consequences of quitting smoking and also discontinuing alcohol at the same time.

One Response to “Quit Smoking to Quit Alcohol”

  1. ray holmes Says:
    June 17th, 2009 at 6:03 am

    if you are a chronic drinker and a heavy smoker my advise is that if u want to quit smoking you also have to give up drinking to enable you to get out of the habbit of smoking. If at the end of 30 days u r confident of not smoking u can resume alcohol in moderate quantities, and if u can continue for a another 30 days withot smoking you r also ready to give up drinking. the dual benefits of givin up both in quick succession gives back a life and health u ve never experienced> i v e successfuly done it and now in the 3rd month of no smoking and drinking after doing both for 30 years.
    ray

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