Depressed people are more likely to smoke and less likely to quit, a CDC survey suggests.
The findings don’t prove that depression causes smoking, or that smoking causes depression. But the data, from nationwide surveys of adults conducted from 2005 through 2008, show there’s a strong link between depression and cigarette smoking.
Depressed people are much more likely to smoke than people who aren’t depressed, the CDC finds. And the number of cigarettes people smoke increases as their depression deepens.
Moreover, smokers suffering depression grab for that first cigarette of the day sooner than smokers who aren’t depressed.
Among people who aren’t depressed, women are less likely to smoke than men are. But depressed women smoke as much as depressed men.
Here are some other key findings for adults age 20 and older from the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 2005-2008
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Depressed people are more likely to smoke and less likely to quit, a CDC survey suggests.
The findings don’t prove that depression causes smoking, or that smoking causes depression. But the data, from nationwide surveys of adults conducted from 2005 through 2008, show there’s a strong link between depression and cigarette smoking.
Depressed people are much more likely to smoke than people who aren’t depressed, the CDC finds. And the number of cigarettes people smoke increases as their depression deepens.
Moreover, smokers suffering depression grab for that first cigarette of the day sooner than smokers who aren’t depressed.
Among people who aren’t depressed, women are less likely to smoke than men are. But depressed women smoke as much as depressed men.
Here are some other key findings for adults age 20 and older from the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 2005-2008
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