The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics
has recently confirmed a link between depression and smoking. This is nothing new. Smoking
has long been thought to be linked with depression.

But now, a recently conducted study is shedding some light on the ability of cigarette
smoke to act like an antidepressant in brain stem cells.

Research has discovered that chemicals inhaled in cigarette smoke may have a similar effect
on the brain as antidepressant drugs do.  This may help to explain why smoking is
more prevalent in persons with major depression than in the general population.  And it
might also explain why people who have recovered from depression and then stop smoking
have a greater likelihood of having their depressive symptoms return.  This in turn causes
many recovering smokers to strike up the habit again.

Some of the studies findings:

• Adults with depression were more likely to smoke than those without depression.
• The percentage of adults who were smokers increased as the severity of depression increased
• More than one in four adult smokers with depression smoked more than a pack a day
• Adults with depression were less likely to quit smoking than those without depression.

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