{"id":3510,"date":"2025-10-14T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/giving-up-smoking-in-old-age-can-cut-dementia-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:03:09","slug":"giving-up-smoking-in-old-age-can-cut-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/giving-up-smoking-in-old-age-can-cut-dementia-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving up smoking in old age can cut dementia risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quitting smoking in later life could help reduce the risk of dementia.

\nThe University College London study, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, found that older adults who stopped smoking experienced significantly slower cognitive decline than those who continued.

\nResearchers followed 9,400 smokers aged over 40, half of whom quit after six years.

\nOver the next half a dozen years, former smokers\u2019 memory deterioration slowed by 20 per cent, while their speech and language declined only half as much as people who kept smoking.

\nExperts say smoking damages blood vessels that supply the brain with oxygen, and quitting can help restore healthy circulation \u2014 protecting against long-term cognitive decline.

\nStudy author Dr. Mikaela Bloomberg said: “This suggests that quitting smoking may help people to maintain better cognitive health over the long term, even if we are in our 50s or older when we quit.

\n“This is important because middle-aged and older smokers are less likely to try to quit than younger groups, yet they disproportionately experience the harms of smoking.”

\nThe findings add to growing evidence that it\u2019s never too late to stop smoking \u2014 with both immediate and lasting benefits for the brain.
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