Women and men experience unique reactions to attempts at smoking cessation and different variables make them more vulnerable to relapse, according to a study recently conducted by the University of Minnesota-Duluth Behavioral Medicine Laboratories, as reported by the Minnesota Daily.
When women try to quit smoking there is a greater chance they will relapse because of psychological effects, while men are more apt to begin smoking again because of biological triggers like the smell of smoke, the study said.
The three-year study reported that both genders experience the same withdrawal symptoms, but relapse in different ways because men and women respond to stress differently.
"The most important aspect of this study is that when we treat men and women, we have to be concerned about how they experience these [withdrawal] symptoms and tailor our treatment accordingly," Mustafa al'Absi, lead researcher of the behavioral medicine laboratories, told the Minnesota Daily.
The research was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Seattle two weeks ago.
--Compiled by Anthony LaMesa
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