We believe that when someone is diagnosed with lung cancer and is undergoing a surgery, which involves the removal of parts or the entire lung cancer would motivate him to stop smoking. But that might not be correct. A new study has found that close to half of 154 smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer picked up a cigarette again within 12 months after their potentially curative care, and more than one-third was smoking on mark a year. Sixty percent of the patients who started smoking again made it within two months after surgery.The study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and is reported in the latest issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & prevention, first as watch smoking relapse among people who were "forced" to quit due to upcoming surgery.
"These patients are all dependent on, so you cannot assume they will easily change their behaviour just because they have dodged this particular point," said the study's lead author, Mark p. Walker, Ph. d., a clinical psychology expert and Assistant Professor of medicine at the University of Washington."Their choice operated by insidious cravings for nicotine."
The researchers found that smokers who was finally giving up their cigarettes-a few on the same day as their operations and which saw the smoking as a pleasurable activities they have difficult to give up, also was the first to resume habit. And they concluded that patients who were able to endure the longest before they took up a cigarette after surgery were those that were most likely not be smoking in a year.
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