I remember that in my years of Institute, when a student was questioned by his need to exit to the patio to smoke a cigarette, it argued that maybe we didn't understand it because she had gone through very high stress situations, and that the cigarette had been something as well as their balm. However, tobacco does not reduce stress. On the contrary: smoking increases 70% the risk of anxiety and depression. It is resulting in a new study carried out by University College London and published in the magazine of the British Heart Foundation. For the study, 6,500 smokers and nonsmokers over 40 years of age were subjected to psychological analysis. 18.3% of the smokers had symptoms of depression... [Read more]