Smoking linked to mid-life memory loss: study

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008, 03:54 AM

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Smoking apparently presents an increased risk for memory loss in people at mid-life, a new study released Monday found.
The study by Severine Sabia and colleagues of France's Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale reviewed data from 10,308 London-based civil servants age 35 to 55 who took part in a study between 1985 and 1988.

The researchers said that they found strong links between smoking and cognitive and memory problems later in life.

"First, smoking in middle age is associated with memory deficit and decline in reasoning abilities," they wrote in a report in the June 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine

"Second, long-term ex-smokers are less likely to have cognitive deficits in memory, vocabulary and verbal fluency.

I personally think that this...ummm...errr....uhhh...

Damn!...I forgot...

saltwn · #2 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008, 02:15 PM

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long-term ex-smokers are less likely to have cognitive deficits in memory, vocabulary and verbal fluency.

Yeah, cause they need a cigarette and that's all they can think about.

saltwn · #3 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008, 02:19 PM

Funny, there were studies on caffeine and nicotine in relation to Alzheimer's that pointed to the fact that a fraction of smokers and coffee drinkers develop the disease compared to nons.

But in the last stages of COPD (if you live to the last stage) there is lack of O2 to the brain.

marylouc · #4 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Smoking linked to mid-life memory loss: study

I personally think that this...ummm...errr....uhhh...

Damn!...I forgot...

Yeh Right!!!! You forgot where you put your socks when u were a kid. A loooong time ago.

saltwn · #5 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by marylouc

Yeh Right!!!! You forgot where you put your socks when u were a kid. A loooong time ago.

That was the style, though. Shoes sans socks. I never understood the 80's. Too late now I guess.

cnredd · #6 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

I never understood the 80's. Too late now I guess.

Maybe that's why I smoke in the first place...

To forget the 80s...

winston53660 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 12:42 AM

Hmmmm what we were talking about?

cnredd · #8 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by winston53660

Hmmmm what we were talking about?

Hell if I know...

Who the heck are you?...

Mikeyy · #9 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 03:06 AM

I quit on my birthday. 12 years ago. I new I had wanted to quit. So when the day came. I woke up and my first thought was, Do I quit today or tomorrow? I new I was already starting to fail. And that ticked me off. And then I got made at the tobacco companies for pimping the cigarettes with drugs to make it more addictive. And to tell you the truth I think my anger at them gave me the determination. And it actually made it easier. Use what works for ya.

mlurp · #10 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 02:15 PM

If thats is the answer Mikeyy I guess I will start quiting on the day I die.

I never smoked till the Nam and I have tried about 6 times. Even putting an open pack in the tray in church and praying etc., I can't. But and there is always a butt. lol
The closest I came was about 4 months the last year before my wife died. But the boy was rasing so much trouble I nearly left. So I bought a pack and drove home. Now I don't care.
I just want to live 3 + years to see my grand-daughter in N.J. She will be 18 then and her mom/grandma (my blood daughter and scorned ex wife) can't stop it then.

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