Exercise Significantly Improves Teens’ Chances Of Giving Up Smoking

Teenagers who give up smoking are much more likely to succeed if they also do exercise, compared to others of the same age who try to quit, researchers from West Virginia reported in the journal Pediatrics. The addition of physical exercise was found to be especially effective for boys. Kimberly Horn, EdD, of the West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown, and colleagues set out …