{"id":1033,"date":"2010-04-21T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2010-04-21T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:47:58","slug":"cigarette-smoking-linked-to-depression-in-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2010\/04\/21\/1033\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette smoking linked to depression in adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2005-2008) has found that adults ages 20 and over with depression were more likely to be cigarette smokers than those without depression. \u00a0This key finding is the focus of a new report from NCHS, \u201cDepression and Smoking in the U.S. Household Population Aged 20 and Over, 2005-2008.\u201d This report also found the\u00a0following: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women with depression had smoking rates similar to men with depression, while women without depression smoked less than men.<\/li>\n<li>Over one-half of men with depression ages 40\u201354 were current smokers compared with 26 percent of men without depression of the same age.<\/li>\n<li>Among women ages 40\u201354, of those with depression, 43 percent were smokers compared with 22 percent of those without depression.<\/li>\n<li>Among adult smokers, those with depression smoked more heavily than those without depression. They were more likely to smoke their first cigarette within 5 minutes of awakening and to smoke more than one pack of cigarettes per day.<\/li>\n<li>Adults with depression were less likely to quit smoking than those without depression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The graph below shows the percentage of adult smokers with depression\u00a0from 2005-2008:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/smoking2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1042\" title=\"The graph below shows the percentage of adult smokers with depression from 2005-2008:\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/smoking2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/smoking1.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/smoking.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0For more, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db34.pdf\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db34.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2005-2008) has found that adults ages 20 and over with depression were more likely to be cigarette smokers than those without depression. \u00a0This key finding is the focus of a new report from NCHS, \u201cDepression and Smoking in the U.S. Household Population Aged 20 and Over,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14356,62319,50899],"tags":[10541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}