Withdrawal of Cigarette Smoking

Per Camner MD Department of Environmental Hygiene of the National Environmental Protection Board, the Department of Environmental Hygiene of the Karolinska Institute, and the City of Stockholm Smoking Withdrawal Clinic, Stockholm, Sweden

Klas Philipson MSc Department of Environmental Hygiene of the National Environmental Protection Board, the Department of Environmental Hygiene of the Karolinska Institute, and the City of Stockholm Smoking Withdrawal Clinic, Stockholm, Sweden

Ture Arvidsson MD Department of Environmental Hygiene of the National Environmental Protection Board, the Department of Environmental Hygiene of the Karolinska Institute, and the City of Stockholm Smoking Withdrawal Clinic, Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract

Tracheobronchial clearance was studied with a test aerosol of 6μm monodisperse particles of fluorinated ethylene propylene (Teflon 120), tagged with ^99mTc, produced by a spinning disc technique. External measurements of the radioactivity in the lungs determined the rate of clearance. Seventeen smokers were studied while they were smokers, one week after they had stopped smoking, and about three months after cessation. Their clearance on the average was faster three months after they had stopped smoking but nearly unchanged one week after they had stopped.

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