{"id":968,"date":"2010-03-16T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2010\/03\/quit-smoking-clear-your-arteries.html"},"modified":"2010-03-16T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:30:14","slug":"quit-smoking-clear-your-arteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/03\/quit-smoking-clear-your-arteries.html","title":{"rendered":"Quit Smoking, Clear Your Arteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/smoking.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"smoking.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/smoking-thumb-195x146-12208.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt\" height=\"146\" width=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/span>Well, nothing is ever that simple, but a new study out yesterday offers yet another reason to quit if you&#8217;re a smoker.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jQHRdqs_RMtKKCgR2pOn7ct_rcKwD9EFA0K00\" target=\"_blank\">reported on the study<\/a>, which was conducted at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Researchers found that a year after quitting smoking, participants had a measurable improvement in their arteries, and were at significantly lower risk of heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting companion fact &#8211; the participants gained, on average, 9 pounds during that first after-smoking year.&nbsp; But the heart improvement was not undermined by the weight gain!<\/p>\n<p>Need more convincing?&nbsp; Check out our motivational <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Health\/Physical-Health\/10-Reasons-I-Quit-Smoking.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">10 Reasons to Quit Smoking<\/a> gallery.<\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><strong>Like<br \/>\nwhat you see? <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=FreshLiving&amp;amp;loc=en_US\"><font color=\"#023d89\"><strong>Click here to subscribe<\/strong><\/font><\/a><strong><br \/>\nand get Fresh Living in your in-box every day.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, nothing is ever that simple, but a new study out yesterday offers yet another reason to quit if you&#8217;re a smoker.&nbsp; The Associated Press reported on the study, which was conducted at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Researchers found that a year after quitting smoking, participants had a measurable improvement in their arteries,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-current-events","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quit Smoking, Clear Your Arteries - Fresh Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/03\/quit-smoking-clear-your-arteries.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quit Smoking, Clear Your Arteries - Fresh Living\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, nothing is ever that simple, but a new study out yesterday offers yet another reason to quit if you&#8217;re a smoker.&nbsp; The Associated Press reported on the study, which was conducted at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. 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A graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Divinity School, she has more than a decade of experience writing about religion and spirituality for Newsweek, The Washington Post, Spa Finder, Sojourners, Search, and many other publications. Her commentaries have also been heard on NPR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All Things Considered.\" When not at her desk, you can find her baking, in her garden, or rockin' out in water aerobics class. She lives in Arlington, Mass. 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