A study has revealed that people who smoke daily have a very high risk of developing mental illnesses like depression and schizophrenia. According to researcher lead author Robin Wootton, while treating people experiencing mental health ailments, "we often ignore their smoking and tobacco habits, while our study has clearly proved that smoking can lead to depression and Performs its role to increase mental health problems like schizophrenia." Robin Wootton is associated with Bristol University. Wootton goes on to say that our study shows that we have to protect people from smoking in order to avoid problems related to physical health as well as mental health. Awareness has to be spread with more efforts towards these problems caused by smoking.
At the same time, the research team associated with this research used data from the UK's Biobank data of 462,690 people in Europe, with 8 percent of current smokers and 22 percent of former smokers in the data. After the conclusion of this study, if you are a daily smoker or a chain smoker, then soon you will have to strictly control yourself to quit this habit. The team adopted an analytical approach called Mendelian Randomization, associated with a risk for smoking, which uses genetic variants that are associated with smoking, which supports a strong conclusion about the relationship between its cause and effect.
Research also suggests that smoking can adversely affect mental health. This new research further strengthens the implementation of smoke-free policies. The study says that this is not only evidence that smoking can be harmful to mental health, but it also proves that smoking also directly related to depression.
