Tobacco use is the main cause of smokers’ death, especially in the United States. But while cigarette smoking has decreased in the U.S. because of the smoking ban and tax increase, Tennessee still has one of the highest smoking rates…
Daily Archives: July 10, 2009
Illinois Valley Community Hospital offers stop-smoking class for teens
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Teenagers who have picked up the tobacco habit and need help quitting smoking can find it by enrolling in a new Illinois Valley Community Hospital smoking cessation class geared especially for teens. The first session of the free class begins…
Quitting smoking improves heart
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Researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York, after that they examined specific inflammatory biomarkers associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in “at risk” women during the smoking cessation process, say that smoking cessation provides immediate benefits…
Health grant pays for tobacco prevention education in county
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The Quit Doc Research and Education Foundation has been awarded a state health grant to provide free tobacco awareness and prevention programs in Martin County. The focus is to reduce the number of teenagers who start smoking each year, to…
U.S. Quitting Policy Bans Cold Turkey Quitting
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That is exactly what the industry has striven hard to bring about. In June 2000. a panel of “experts” on which 11 of 18 members were pharmaceutical industry consultants, was allowed to author official U.S. smoking cessation policy. Not surprisingly…
Odds of unplanned quit smoking attempts have more success than for planned
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) surely hoped that the study it funded of 900 smokers and 800 ex-smokers, a study conducted by four of its consultants, would show that smokers who engaged in planning prior to quitting, planning that involved heavy reliance on…
Fewer Arkansas adults are smoking
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“I’ve tried different medications, I’ve tried patches,” said Michele Polk. Michele Polk is one of the thousands of Arkansans who smoke, she’s also one of thousands who have tried to quit. “Probably all together, between 5 to 10 times,” said…
Tobacco smoke can trigger child’s asthma attack
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Exposure to smoke can worsen your child’s asthma and should be eliminated to help effectively manage symptoms, said a pediatric pulmonologist at Baylor College of Medicine. “Sometimes treating a child’s asthma means treating the parent’s tobacco addiction,” said Dr. Harold…
Wearing the nicotine patch before quitting increases success
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Smokers who wear a nicotine patch for two weeks before they quit smoking are twice as likely to kick the habit as those who puton the patch on the day they quit, finds a new study, published online in the…