- A new U.S. study examines whether quitting cigarettes is worth the weight gain, and finds you are still better off in the long run. Compared with smokers, even the quitters who gained the most weight had at least a 50 percent lower risk of dying prematurely from heart disease and other causes. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1803626 8 comments science
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