Quitting smoking boosts personality

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Quitting smoking has many physical benefits to the body, but here’s one gain that falls in the mental health category: boosting one’s personality.

Study Finds Quitting Smoking Enhances Personality Change. University of Missouri researchers have found evidence that shows those who quit smoking show improvements in their overall personality.

University of Missouri conducted a research on smokers aging 18-35 and revealed that the category of people who quit smoking in the age group of 18-25 manifested significant drops in impulsivity and neuroticism, two distinct personality traits that are normally associated during young adulthood. Impulsivity refers to acting without thinking about the consequences while neuroticism means being emotionally negative and anxious, most of the time.

“Smokers at age 18 had higher impulsivity rates than non-smokers at age 18, and those who quit tended to display the steepest declines in impulsivity between ages 18 and 25,” Andrew Littlefield said,a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science

The study suggests that a number of young smokers start the habit of smoking because of impulse without taking into consideration the long-term effects. But when they start to manage to kick it, it is because they have learned the bigger consequences.

Researchers mentioned that the impulse pattern fits the age-old perception that people start smoking because it looks cool.

Now you can give yourself a boost by quitting smoking for good.

[scienceblog]