Interestingly, the inflammatory profile of a group of asthmatics with a median smoking cessation of 7 years was more similar to that of the current-smoking than that of the never-smokers, suggesting that effects of smoking may persist for a long time after smoking cessation in asthmatics.
It was part of a bad-boy image I'd cultivated for a long time -- smoking, drinking, partying, rock 'n' roll.
3 Because there are long time lags between smoking initiation and smoking-attributed mortalities which become apparent only in mid-to-late adulthood, the impacts of early smoking initiation tend to be unclear.
1 Because this study showed the long time lag between smoking initiation and lung cancer mortality within cohorts compared with possible rapid changes in smoking habits across cohorts, age-specific measures focusing on birth cohorts should be monitored.
"It took a very long time to make smoking socially unacceptable.
This suggests a long time lag between smoking initiation and lung cancer mortality.
Since there may be important clinical differences between someone who stopped smoking a long time ago versus someone who stopped recently, it would be helpful to know time of smoking cessation.
As a medication he took Pantoprazol, Tegretol and Dorsolamide and had stopped smoking a long time ago.
They suggested that their results are in accordance with the hypothesis that smoking cessation was an effective way to reduce the risk of depression, and if so, depression should be less frequent in former-smokers who stopped smoking a long time ago compared to those who stopped recently [ 41].
Or we may have to live with an ambiguous situation that drags on for a long time, with neither a smoking gun nor a clean bill of health, because inspections are inconclusive, American allies deem Iraq's threat insufficient to justify a war and Washington concludes that it would be wiser not to go at all than to go it alone.
