Smokers with a history of depression often get depressed after quitting, [Alexander Glassman] says. He's studying whether anti-depressant drugs can help such smokers quit successfully.
The health value of quitting is stressed in the first smoking report from Surgeon General Antonia C. Novello, released Tuesday. ``It's never too late to quit,'' Novello says, noting that 38 million already have.
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