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Research: Smoking Raises Risk of MS Conversion to Secondary Progressive

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There is a simple, if not grave, message in the following new study: If you don't have MS and you smoke, you have a higher chance of acquiring it. If you already have MS and smoke, you have a significantly higher risk of converting to secondary progressive (versus a RRMS non-smoker).

To be fair, this study, however, does not control for the hypothesis that MS may cause changes in the brain that make people more likely to smoke in the first place. Nevertheless, it is a rather straightforward conclusion that smoking is certainly not "good" or even benign for MSers, given the other recent studies that showed cognitive decline in smokers, as well as a 2 times higher risk of multiple sclerosis diagnosis versus nonsmokers.

If you need help quitting, post a message in the forums and our community will undoubtedly help.

"These results support the hypothesis that cigarette smoking is associated with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis, and suggest that smoking may be a risk factor for transforming a relapsing-remitting clinical course into a secondary progressive course."

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Research: Smoking Speeds Cognitive Decline in Elderly

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The study here shows that people who smoke show far more rapid brain decline as they age compared to their non-smoking peers. MS is a disease, that among other things, attacks the brain already. In other words, if you have MS, it is incredibly unwise to smoke as the rate of cognitive decline of a disease of the brain combined with a habit that attacks the brain is likely to be frightening.

"Smoking speeds up cognitive decline in the elderly, according to a large, multi-center study published in the March 23 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The rate of decline was found to be an average of five times higher per year in current smokers than those who never smoked...

Among those who never smoked (41 percent), the MMSE score declined .03 points per year. The score for current smokers (22 percent) declined .16 points per year, about five times more. Former smokers (37 percent) dropped .06 points per year."

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