Smoking leads to depression

Health

Written by Team Josh

Saturday, 04 October 2008

If you are a woman and is smoking, your chance to suffer from depression is higher.
A new study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, reveals that women who smoke are at greater risk of developing major depressive disorder.

The study is the first to investigate smoking using data that extends over a ten-year period. Australian researchers from the University of Melbourne and Geelng’s Barwon Health assessed 1043 women, whose health had been monitored for a decade in a separate study.

Results revealed that women with depression were more likely to have been smokers than those without depression.

Among smokers, 15 per cent went on to develop major depressive disorder; however, the number was only 6.5 per cent for non-smokers.

Smoking is not only dangerous to health but cause many disorders and depression is among one of them.