“Smoking cessation is associated with reduced depression, anxiety, and stress and improved positive mood and quality of life compared with continuing to smoke...
The effect sizes are equal or larger than those of antidepressant treatment for mood and anxiety disorders.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g1151
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It will be interesting to compare traditional tobacco with the newer Vaping technology on this.
