Endocrinologist Zukhra Pavlova: by quitting smoking at 35, you can extend your life by an average of 8 years.
Doctor Pavlova reported: quitting cigarettes is an affordable way to extend human life by several years. According to the doctor, by giving up this bad habit, people have the opportunity to increase their life expectancy by 5-8 years.
“If you give up a bad habit at 35, you can save an average of 8 years of life. Quitting smoking at 45 will save an average of 5.6 years, at 55 – 3.4 years,” the doctor said on her Telegram channel, referring to a study published in June 2024.
Pavlova drew attention to the fact that quitting smoking has the effect of prolonging life, even if a person decides to do it at an older age. In particular, by quitting smoking at 65, a person can live almost two years longer (by 1.7 years), and by quitting smoking at 75 – almost a year longer (by 0.7 years).
Zukhra Pavlova stated: cigarette smoke is a source of a huge amount of toxic chemicals that disrupt the integrity of tissues and cellular structures. There is practically no organ in the human body that would not suffer from the toxic effects of these components when smoking. This habit makes people susceptible to such dangerous pathologies as stroke, heart and lung disease, various types of cancer, and age-related dementia.
“Not only regular cigarettes are dangerous for the body, but also electronic ones. Initially, they were promoted as a safer alternative, but new studies have shown that in many ways vapes can be even more harmful,” the doctor warned.
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Important! Information provided for reference purposes. Ask a specialist about contraindications and side effects and do not self-medicate under any circumstances. At the first signs of illness, consult a doctor.
Zukhra Pavlova Healthy lifestyle endocrinologist at the Lomonosov Moscow State University Scientific and Educational Center, PhD in Medicine