Smokers with heart disease could gain five healthy years by quitting

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Newswise — Sophia Antipolis –   Smoking cessation adds the same number of heart disease-free years to life as three preventive medications combined, according to research presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 “The benefits of smoking cessation are even greater than we realised,” said study author Dr. […]