POPULAR anti-smoking drugs could be forced to carry strong warnings about the risks they pose to mental health, including the risk of suicidal thoughts. Statistics from Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, show six suicides and another 2500 adverse…
Daily Archives: July 7, 2009
AKP smoker asked to quit
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on to quit smoking a member of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) after he received a complaint that the person smoked too much. Adem Aksoy, also a member of the AKP, wrote…
Online Genetic Test May be Motivating Factor for Smokers to Quit
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Knowledge of genetic risk may encourage an individual to quit smoking, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Scientists evaluated responses to an online test taken by 44 smokers who did or did not have the…
Anti-smoking drugs linked to mental illness
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Regulators are considering stronger warnings about popular anti-smoking drugs, with statistics revealing 400 psychiatric disturbances linked to the drug Zyban in recent years. A Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) spokeswoman says the agency plans to update information given to consumers about…
How To Stop Smoking And Not Gain Weight
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It’s one reason people decide to continue smoking! They’re afraid that if they stop, they’ll end up gaining a lot of weight. We take a look at some of the challenges of keeping the weight off… when you’ve quit smoking.…
Abortion Foes Should Emulate Anti-Smoking Ads
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RH Reality Check has launched a new “common ground” site, inviting pro-life and pro-abortion thinkers to explore areas where we can work together. Of course, the upper echelon of the abortion movement has no intention of finding common ground, which…
Quit smoking but risk serious mental side effects
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The smoking cessation drugs Chantix (from Pfizer) and Zyban (from GlaxoSmithKline) may be associated with serious mental side effects including: changes in behavior, depressed mood, hostility, and suicidal thoughts. At first glance, many may discount these as simply being a…
Anti-smoking protestor hijacks Trafalgar Square
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Banner-waving protester Stuart Holmes briefly hijacked the fourth plinth just minutes before the One & Other art work was officially launched today – and received admiration from the project’s creator Antony Gormley. Mr Holmes, wearing a purple top, appeared to…
How to quit smoking
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Unlike President Barack Obama, Eric Wolbert has been a non-smoker for 30 days. He quit his pack-a-day habit because he has watched cigarettes hurt too many people, including his grandparents, who died of lung cancer, he said. Plus, smoking’s getting…
World No Tobacco Day With New Counter-Marketing and Advertising Campaigns
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On World No Tobacco Day, World Lung Foundation is partnering with government health ministries in China and India to launch new tobacco counter‐marketing campaigns in those countries, where the largest populations of smokers in the world reside. WLF also completed…
Why Obama and smokers fear quitting
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Most who smoke or chew nicotine have deep fears that quitting will suck the joy from life. New research demolishes this “unhappiness” fiction. A May study published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research found that successful quitters were 21 times more…
Are electronic cigarettes a safer alternative?
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They’re called electronic cigarettes, and manufacturers claim smokers can get a nicotine fix without the harmful agents that typically cause cancer. Monday, we spoke with smokers and a doctor about the device. It’s a bad habit, but one e-cigarette smoker…