Quitting smoking associated with better recovery after drug and alcohol addiction

According to scientists from the National Institutes of Health (Nih), adults who smoke cigarettes and are addicted to alcohol or other drugs to achieve permanent remission of the symptoms of substance use, if they also quit smoking. Based on their analysis of data from a large American research on smoking and health, scientists believe that the results clearly show the benefits of evaporating smoking cessation with addiction recovery efforts.

“We now have strong evidence from the domestic sample in which smoking provides for an improvement in recovery after other disorders of the use of substance,” explained Nora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug ABUSE (NIDA), which is partly financed by the study, known as the assessment of the tobacco and health population (path). “It emphasizes the importance of solving various addictions and not in isolation.”

Scientists analyzed data from 2652 people aged 18 and older who had a disturbance of the use of substances in the past and who have experienced a change in recovery status over the next four years.

Path examination participants are annually asking for their smoking status and other use of the substance. In this analysis, the change in the status of smoking from “current” to “previous” use of cigarettes was associated with 42% greater chances in which the unit is returned to resignation from the disorder of the use of a bullbone substance.

People with addiction to alcohol or other substances have a greater likelihood of nicotine addiction. Previous studies have suggested a relationship between smoking cessation and better results from other disorders related to the use of substances. However, the authors note that most of the previous studies used data from treatment centers focusing on addiction to one substance or attempts to stop smoking, and those that used samples representative at the national level could not properly test the relationship with recovery. Scientists believe that a new discovery is generalized for millions of adults with disorders of the use of substances and takes into account numerous disturbing factors, thus increasing confidence in the results.

Although the health benefits of quitting smoking are well known, smoking cessation was not seen as a high priority in drug addiction treatment programs. This discovery supports the support of incorporation of smoking cessation as part of addiction treatment. ”

Wilson Compton, MD, Deputy Director of NIDA and senior author of the study

Although it was a longitudinal analysis, which definitely suggested that quitting smoking plays a role in improving the results of recovery from other disorders related to the use of substances, further research will be needed to definitively establish a causal relationship. Further research is also needed for the best ways of supporting smoking among people in the treatment or regeneration of disorders related to the use of substances.

The Path study is a ongoing, representative cohort study at the national level among adolescents and adults who may, but do not have to use tobacco products financed by NIH and the American Food and Drug Agency.

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