What's Worse For Your Heart, The Weight Gain After Quitting Smoking Or The Smoking?

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

An analysis of data from the Framingham Offspring Study, which follows children of participants in the original Framingham Heart Study, may have answered a question that has been asked by doctors and smokers alike; do the health effects of any weight gained after quitting outweigh the known cardiovascular benefits of smoking cessation?   read more

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