During a special press-conference held on Wednesday afternoon, Hong Kong’s Department of Health officials urged smoking community to resist the massive PR attack directed on them by manufacturers and distributors of electronic buy cigarettes and not to use electronic cigarettes…
Daily Archives: March 24, 2009
How to quit smoking and stay slim
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It is pretty normal for weight to creep on – or in some cases to pile on – when you give up smoking, average gains are 15.4lb after 12 weeks, with 10 per cent of quitters putting on more than…
Smokers to pay heavy price
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Harry O’Keefe, 59, has been smoking since he was a student at what is now Norwich Technical High School. The pack-a-day smoker said he’s never made much of an attempt to quit. But a recent increase in the cost of…
Berrien County Health Department helps residents quit smoking
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This month the Michigan Department of Community Health offered free smoking cessation products through a state hot line. And it was flooded with tens of thousands of calls in the first week alone. Now the Berrien County Health Department is…
Cash incentive to quit cigarettes
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The first smokers in Dundee have signed up to a scheme which could see them receive £150 worth of groceries if they can give up cigarettes for 12 weeks. The quit4u project is targeting smokers in the poorest area of…
My Stop Smoking Coach for iPhone
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Quitting smoking is no easy feat. According to Gameloft’s My Stop Smoking Coach with Allen Carr though, it’s as simple as a positive attitude and a few minigames. Allen Carr, an accountant who overcame his own five-pack-a-day habit and went…
Smokers at Increased Risk for Pancreatitis
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Smoking may account for nearly half of all cases of acute and chronic pancreatitis, researchers here said. Explain to interested patients that the established risk factors for pancreatitis are alcohol use and gallstones. Note that this cohort study found that…