A recent paper published in The American Journal of Psychiatry has found a gene that might explain the high rate of smoking cessation failure among heavy smokers. Thousands of smokers with and without the gene were compared, revealing that individuals with the high-risk gene took two years longer to quit. However, being condemned with the [...]
A recent paper published in The American Journal of Psychiatry has found a gene that might explain the high rate of smoking cessation failure among heavy smokers. Thousands of smokers with and without the gene were compared, revealing that individuals with the high-risk gene took two years longer to quit. However, being condemned with the high-risk gene doesn’t make it impossible to quit. The same study shows that this gene also makes heavy smokers three times more likely to respond to smoking cessation therapy.
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