British researchers have discovered the “addictive gene” that makes it difficult for some women to quit smoking during pregnancy. Previous studies had linked maternal smoking to a wide range of pregnancy complications such as low birth weight, placental problems and…
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Ex-Marine Develops Fail-Safe Program to Quit Smoking
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owQuit has developed a quit smoking program around the only existing program that has a history of 100% success. The program takes key military strategies and implements them into a method of quitting smoking that arms the quitter with the…
Time’s up. 43% will try to quit smoking within the year
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As the two-year extension period for restaurant smoking draws to a close on 1 June, more than 40 venues in Helsinki face the transition from smoking to non-smoking. The options are to either force smokers outside or to build a…
Beautiful Skin begins at breakfast
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Beautiful healthy skin starts at your mouth; specifically what you put into it. All the creams and lotions in the world will not replace proper nutrition when it comes to the appearance of your skin. According to Dr. Wechsler, stress is…
Health groups renew anti-smoking campaign with Hollywood
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Despite a decline in teenage smoking rates, a coalition of health groups has renewed a campaign to discourage Hollywood from making movies with characters who smoke. Beginning today, a mobile billboard featuring a teenage girl asking, “Which movie studios will…
Smoke-free air celebration
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The Metro Omaha Tobacco Action Coalition (MOTAC) will celebrate at its annual Recognition Luncheon the statewide smoke-free air law from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 29 at the Thompson Alumni Center, 6705 Dodge St., on the University of Nebraska…
More Cigarettes More Single Men
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Tobacco smoking harms not only women’s health but also men’s health and even life. Dr. Orlando Thomas, a medical practitioner, found that cigarette smoking is linked to impotence in Jamaican men, especially in heavy smokers. The doctor said that smoking…
Better health? There’s an app for that
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From finding the number of calories in that jumbo burrito to calculating how much treadmill time you’d have to log to burn them, iPhone apps can help you in your quest to lose weight or get fit. Here are a…
Study Shows Computer Help Smokers Quit
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As every smoker knows, it’s incredibly hard to quit, but help might be as close as the keyboard on your computer, new research suggests. Web- and computer-based smoking-cessation programs, including some that are interactive, seem to be effective, shows a…
Canada Moves to Restrict Tobacco Marketing Aimed at Children
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Canada introduced amendments to its tobacco law today to make it harder for cigarette makers to market their products to children and ban small packages of certain tobacco products — so-called “kiddy packs.” The legislation would ban cigarette makers from…
World No Tobacco Day
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When educating the community about health, you have to be hopeful that people not only listen to your message but that they will apply what they hear to their lives. Education is the only way that lifestyle improvements can be…
Anti-tobacco efforts
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After 30 years smoking Marlboros, 53-year-old hospital maintenance man Dave Hanna was ready to quit. Thanks to the Vermont Quit Network, he didn’t have to do it alone: Hanna got one-on-one counseling, nicotine therapy patches and support materials from a…
Smokers Can’t Blow Off Stress
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Ask cigarette smokers why they light up and one answer you’re likely to hear is that it relieves stress. But if that’s the goal, it’s not at all clear that cigarettes deliver the goods. Half (50%) of all smokers say…
Lung Association Encourage to Stop Smoking
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Lung Association is encouraging tobacco smokers to quit smoking and they’re holding an open house their location on Pippy Place to help peuple. A cab driver, Richard Young, was a smoker for 45 years and now his wife and he…