Smoking immediately after awakening increases the risk of developing cancer
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Some people start their morning not with breakfast or a cup of fragrant coffee, but with a cigarette. Recent studies of scientists have shown that the habit of delaying immediately after a night's rest can be detrimental to health. It is a cigarette, smoked on an empty stomach in the morning, can be more dangerous than everyone else smoked during the day.
In the course of the last two studies, a group of scientists discovered that a cigarette smoked immediately after awakening increases the risk of oncology of the lungs, as well as the head and neck. Scientists note that in the body of lovers to smoke since the morning, there were increased indicators of nicotine and other toxic substances. Scientists do not exclude the fact that such people are more dependent on addiction than those who can not smoke for 30 minutes and longer.
Researchers wanted to find out why only a part of smokers develop cancer and decided to establish whether there is a connection between the development of oncology and morning smoking. In their study, specialists focused on the habit of smoking a cigarette immediately after awakening, no matter how long a person smokes and how many cigarettes a cigarette a day.
In their first study, the researchers analyzed the condition of about five thousand patients suffering from lung cancer and about three thousand heavy smokers who had no serious illnesses. As it turned out during the research, a person who smoked his first cigarette a day during 30 minutes after an overnight rest, almost doubled the risk of lung cancer, unlike those who could do without a cigarette at least an hour after a night's sleep.
In smokers who preferred to smoke a cigarette in half an hour - an hour after sleep, the likelihood of developing lung cancer increased by 1.3 times than those who could refrain from morning smoking for at least an hour.
Another study conducted was aimed at analyzing the condition of patients suffering from neck and head cancer. The study involved a little more than 1000 patients with this form of oncology and about 800 smokers who do not have oncology. As a result of the analysis, the researchers found that smokers who smoked a cigarette from the first hour after awakening increased their chances of developing head and neck cancer by a factor of 1.5, unlike those who could do without cigarettes at least an hour after an overnight rest. At the same time, scientists found that smokers who smoked a cigarette 30-60 minutes after waking up had a 1.4 times greater chance of developing these forms of cancer, in contrast to those smokers who could last more than 60 minutes before smoking a cigarette.
As the researchers themselves believe, this project can help in the recognition of smokers who are at risk for developing oncology, in particular the lungs, neck, head.
In addition, the research team noted that a pernicious habit can lead to serious illness, no matter what time of day cigarettes are smoked.
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