New research supports “that quitting smoking is the single best thing people can do to enhance their life expectancy." Even quitting smoking at 75-years-old could boost life expectancy! Veuer’s Chloe Hurst has the story!
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00:00New research supports that quitting smoking is the single best thing people can do to enhance their life expectancy.
00:07The study of almost 13,000 middle-aged men conducted at the University of Michigan
00:12found that even quitting smoking at 75 years old could boost life expectancy.
00:18Science Alert reports individuals who smoked at age 75 and beyond
00:22were predicted to lose about 4.4 years of their lives on average.
00:27This equates to nearly 50% of their life expectancy at this respective age.
00:32Participants smoking 30 or more cigarettes a day at the start of the research
00:37faced a 21% greater risk of dying over the residual 25 years.
00:42These findings may be valuable for clinicians seeking scientific evidence to motivate their patients who smoke to quit.