Quitting smoking is not easy, but not impossible, sometimes it all depends from moment where you decide to do so. It seems that for women it is better not quit smoking in 14 days of the menstrual cycle preceding ovulation, turn off the last cigarette during these days increases the risk of returning to smoking. This is the conclusion of a study by U.S. researchers at the University of Minnesota, the details of the research were published in the journal “Addiction Research & Theory. ”
Sharon Allen, the researcher who led the study, explains that the sex hormones, whose concentrations fluctuate in different phases of the menstrual cycle, could alter the rate of absorption of nicotine in the blood but not only, it seems even the nerve centers of the conditional dependence . Previous studies have found that women smokers smoke more at certain days of the cycle.
To conduct the study, researchers examined 200 smokers. 100 of them were trying to quit smoking in the follicular phase, also called pre-ovulatory or proliferative other hand had to stop the luteal phase of the cycle, the period (usually 14 days in a regular cycle) which starts with ovulation and ends with menstruation.
A distance of one month, 66 percent of women who had stopped smoking in the luteal phase of the cycle had resumed the habit of cigarettes, it was noted, however, a percentage significantly higher in women who had stopped in the follicular phase. Ben, 86 percent of smokers who tried to break the habit of smoking in the pre-ovulatory had resumed smoking.
Although the researchers explain that we must conduct further studies to better understand these biological mechanisms, show that it is very likely that the female sex hormones act on the brain influencing the outcome of efforts to give up smoking.
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