Success in the fight against smoking is dependent on the phase of the menstrual cycle

Can stop likelihood of success tried to quit smoking on the phase of the menstrual cycle on which believe the smoking, researchers from the University of Minnesota. According to them, women who smoke early in the cycle to stop more often back to the habit. In an experiment by scientists from 200 smokers attended performed. Stopped, half the subjects with smoking while on the primary, the follicular phase of the cycle. The participants of the second group made a similar attempt in the phase of the "yellow body" that precedes menstruation. Smoking 30 days after the start of the study to 86% of women started in the first group again. In the second group, there were only 66%. According to scientists, the revealed laws can be related to hormonal changes during the different phases of the menstrual cycle. It is possible that variations in the levels of hormones may influence the severity of withdrawal in the event of cigarettes. Moreover, the hormone levels in the metabolic rate and the rate of excretion of nicotine and its metabolites depend smokers. The report on the study published in the journal Addiction.