Discovery BuzzThe latest scientific discoveries.

Successful lung cancer surgery not enough to break nicotine dependence in many smokers

Story date: 2006-12-11 04:01:56
Added on: 2006-12-11 00:00:00


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 of their potentially curative operation, and more than one-third were smoking at the one year mark. Sixty percent of patients who started smoking again did so within two months of surgery.



Read more...



Copyright © 2006 - 2009 discoverybuzz.com.