Depression and Smoking Problems
The Center for Disease Control collected data that shows people who are depressed are more likely to be a smoker, and that a person who is in a depressive episode will smoke more frequently. The findings show that a person who is depressed will possibly use smoking as a comfort when their depression worsens.
The findings show:
44% of people with severe depression are smokers. Compared to an estimated 20% of people who are not depressed, and are smokers.
Over 50% of smokers who are depressed will smoke the first thing in the morning, compared to about 30% for people who are not depressed.
Nearly double the number of smokers who are depressed are also smokers who smoke more than 1 pack a day.
Depressed people were shown to be less likely to be able to quit smoking.
The findings do NOT show that smoking causes depression, or that depression causes someone to smoke.
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