Effort to stop smoking is more intense for women

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 06:56 in Health & Medicine

No evidence can confirm if men or women have more success in efforts to stop smoking. But, according to the December issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource, women tend to report more intense withdrawal symptoms, including depression, irritability, anxiety, lethargy, a reduced ability to concentrate, and weight changes...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net