A recent study shows that even the smallest amount of regular exercise can help smokers kick the habit.
“Our message is to quit and exercise — to do both is the best,” says Chi Pang Wen, a professor at the National Health Research Institute and China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan, who presented the data at the World Congress of Cardiology meeting in Dubai.
“Trying to quit is a painful process,” Wen told Shots by phone from Dubai. “That painful process creates a vacuum. This substitute, which is exercise, will distract the smokers from thinking every day about the need to smoke.”
Even for smokers who can’t quit, walking just 15 minutes a day six days a week is enough to improve their health.
