In India, around 20-30% of smokers try to quit each year
Once your body is back in balance, and if you remain vigilant about your diet , physical activity and relationship with food , you can naturally return to your ideal weight
The currently available smoking cessation therapies have been shown to double or even triple the dropout rates in controlled studies [93, 94]
Newer work that tracks SHBG, cotinine levels, oxidative stress markers, and testicular function reveals that smoking mostly inflates lab totals while it binds more hormone to SHBG, injures testosteroneproducing cells, and leaves less free testosterone available to the tissues that actually rely on it
Comparable regulatory gaps exist in several other countries