According to a research of North Carolina Medical University , women are more sensitive to stress than men and would like to smoke more than men in anxiety situations.
STUDY SHOWS STRESS GENERATES TOBACCO CURRENCY IN WOMEN
Women are increasingly dying of tobacco: between 2002 and 2015, the number of female deaths attributed to smoking has doubled. According to the National Institute of American Addiction, smoking cessation by nicotine replacement therapy is more effective in men than in women. Research at the North Carolina Medical School sheds new light on these results: women are more likely to smoke when exposed to stress than men.
To conduct this research, American scientists recruited 177 smokers (men and women). For two weeks, eight images were sent to the participants' smartphones every day. Some were linked to tobacco: a person who smokes, a picture of a cigarette… Others generated stress, through images of violence or war, and finally others were neutral. Before and after viewing the pictures, people had to answer a questionnaire on their emotional state (stress, negative emotions, etc.) and their desire to smoke. They also had to report the number of cigarettes smoked every day.
When receiving images of war or violence, women were more stressed than men and also wanted to smoke more. But there was no difference in the number of cigarettes smoked per day. " It's possible that stress makes women smoke earlier than they would otherwise" , Explain Rachel Tomko, one of the authors of this study.
Source : Pourquoidocteur.fr/
