September 28, 2011   New research at Northumbria University in Great Britain shows that quitting smoking can boost memory function. Researchers found that former smokers performed 25% better on memory tests than did current smokers and never-smokers did even better.  
Participants in the study needed to complete several tasks at certain locations on a university campus. On average, smokers remembered less than 60 percent of their tasks, compared to people who never smoked, who remembered about 80 percent. Former smokers were able to perform 74 percent of their tasks, as reported in September’s online issue of Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The researchers now want to conduct a new experiment to see if secondhand smoke can affect the memory.
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