Post by Libello on Apr 29, 2016 10:40:36 GMT
Smoking and Secondary Progressive MS
March 31, 2016
Portrait of young woman refuses to smoke and breaks
Here’s a fact. If you are a smoker with MS, you are fast-tracking yourself to Secondary Progressive MS. How fast is fast? Well, the results of a study published in Jama Neurology at the end of last year (reported in this news story) showed that for every year that someone with MS continues to smoke after diagnosis, they are accelerating the likelihood of SPMS by 4.7% compared with those who quit on diagnosis. The Kaplan-Meier (time to event) curve estimated that SPMS would be reached at age 48 by smokers with MS, compared with age 56 by those with MS who stop smoking. That’s a significant difference.
Many other important studies have been done. OMS’s HOLISM study showed that people with MS who smoke not only have a lower quality of life but also a startling 90% increase in the likelihood of major mobility impairments. And if you are a smoker with MS and children, then you mustn’t ignore a 2007 French study which showed that children were more than twice as likely to get MS if their parents smoked. More than twice as likely. The longer their exposure, the more likely MS was to develop.
Whether you’re a heavy smoker, or even just one of those ‘I only smoke when I drink’ types, we urge all of you who do still smoke to do everything within your power, and to get all the help you need, to stop. Hand in hand with the OMS Recovery Program, not only will it dramatically reduce your chances of progressing to disability as a result of MS, but it goes without saying that you will be more likely to avoid a whole host of other conditions that come with it.
March 31, 2016
Portrait of young woman refuses to smoke and breaks
Here’s a fact. If you are a smoker with MS, you are fast-tracking yourself to Secondary Progressive MS. How fast is fast? Well, the results of a study published in Jama Neurology at the end of last year (reported in this news story) showed that for every year that someone with MS continues to smoke after diagnosis, they are accelerating the likelihood of SPMS by 4.7% compared with those who quit on diagnosis. The Kaplan-Meier (time to event) curve estimated that SPMS would be reached at age 48 by smokers with MS, compared with age 56 by those with MS who stop smoking. That’s a significant difference.
Many other important studies have been done. OMS’s HOLISM study showed that people with MS who smoke not only have a lower quality of life but also a startling 90% increase in the likelihood of major mobility impairments. And if you are a smoker with MS and children, then you mustn’t ignore a 2007 French study which showed that children were more than twice as likely to get MS if their parents smoked. More than twice as likely. The longer their exposure, the more likely MS was to develop.
Whether you’re a heavy smoker, or even just one of those ‘I only smoke when I drink’ types, we urge all of you who do still smoke to do everything within your power, and to get all the help you need, to stop. Hand in hand with the OMS Recovery Program, not only will it dramatically reduce your chances of progressing to disability as a result of MS, but it goes without saying that you will be more likely to avoid a whole host of other conditions that come with it.