Clinical Study

Maintained Smoking Cessation for 6 Months Equilibrates the Percentage of Sputum Lymphocyte Cells with That of Nonsmokers

Figure 4

Percentage of sputum T-cells (% sputum lymphocytes) in “healthy” smokers before smoking cessation ( = 16), after 6 months of smoking cessation ( = 18), and after 1 year of smoking cessation ( = 9). Results from 10 controls are also presented.
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