Coughing and other respiratory symptoms improve within weeks of smoking cessation

Friday, February 3, 2012 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

If the proven long-term benefits of smoking cessation are not enough to motivate young adults to stop smoking, a new study shows that 18- to 24-year olds who stop smoking for at least two weeks report substantially fewer respiratory symptoms, especially coughing. The study findings are detailed in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology.

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