Do you realise that smoking lowers your immunity to illness and is bad for your health? You perhaps started smoking because you thought it was fashionable and macho! Maybe you had planned to stop burning your money but found that…
Daily Archives: July 1, 2009
Using the Internet to help young smokers quit
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Many young smokers want to quit but don’t know what methods work. The University of Illinois at Chicago is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment among young adults. “Even…
Hypnosis No Hocus-Pocus In Helping Smokers to Quit
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A Jakarta-based psychiatrist claims that hypnosis can increase smokers’ chances of kicking the habit, and decrease their chances of kicking the bucket. Tribowo Ginting, from the Smoking Cessation Clinic at the Persahabatan Pulmonary and Respiratory Hospital in East Jakarta, said…
Saudi anti-smoking campaign offers fabulous wedding
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Hundreds of young men are interested in the initiative. Winner gets an all-expenses paid wedding, including party, dowry and furnished house. Women complain that the campaign objectifies women’s bodies. Others doubt it conforms to clerics’ rulings. Quit smoking and you…
Boss Power Used To Quit Smoking
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Being the boss of a company gives you a lot of power to help your employees succeed and ultimately if they succeed so will you. One of the biggest but often overlooked actions that bosses can take is to improve…
All NC hospitals to be 100 percent tobacco-free as of July 6
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NC Prevention Partners today announced that, as of July 6, all acute care hospitals in North Carolina will have passed 100 percent tobacco-free campus policies. This means no tobacco can be used anywhere on the hospital’s premises, including buildings, sidewalks,…
Secondhand Smoke Threatens Casino Workers’ Health
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New research suggests that casino workers face a higher risk of heart disease and lung cancer because they work in buildings filled with tobacco smoke. By one scientist’s calculation, six of every 10,000 nonsmoking casino employees in Pennsylvania will die…
Colorectal Cancer Risk Elevated in Men and Smokers
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Male gender and current smoking are significant risk factors for advanced colorectal neoplasia and colorectal cancer, according to two studies published in the June issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. In one study, Kelvin K.F. Tsoi, M.D., of the Chinese…