Couples Are More Likely to Get Healthy Together Than Single Individuals

The journey of losing weight and changing to a full time healthy lifestyle is normally a very difficult one. Many people try to take on this task by themselves, which unfortunately usually leads to negative results and unhappiness. An individual can not underestimate the importance of their partner supporting or actually quitting bad lifestyle habits with them, as it has been proven that quitting a
negative habit with your loved one is of enormous prominence. A new study shows that if you attempt this journey with a significant other, your chances of success grow significantly. The study, performed by scientists at the University College London, monitored couples where one partner decided to make a lifestyle change, and analyze how likely the other partner was to pick up this new lifestyle change. The three major activities looked at were starting to be active, losing weight and quitting smoking.
The study evaluated over 3,500 couples intensively. Across every activity evaluated, the results were the same. Couples were more likely to get healthy together when they started at the same time. Smoking was one of the most obvious cases. If both partners smoked, and one decided to give it up, 50% of the time the other partner was able to also give up smoking. When one of the partners was a non-smoker and the other did smoke, only 17% of those participants were able to give up smoking. Finally, if both of the partners were smokers, and one decided to try and give it up, only 8% of those individuals were able to quit. This makes sense, as if you are going through this process with someone close to you, and they can understand exactly how you are feeling when going through the rough patches of a lifestyle change, it can make the situation much more bearable.
These results are very important, as it shows the importance of support of your significant other and how imperative it is for couples to quit bad habits together. The results are in and it isn't even close. So next time you are ready to quit a bad habit, and you see your significant other also participates in that same bad habit, sit down and talk to them, and explain how important it is that you quit that bad habit together as success is much more probable! Good luck.

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