If women didn’t already have enough reasons to quit smoking before pregnancy, here’s a big one: Smoking during pregnancy may set their child up for blood vessel damage, a new study shows. Dutch scientists enrolled more than 250 children. When…
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Why Pediatricians May Be Best Equipped to Help Smokers Quit
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Parents with kids are most likely to respond to interventions to get them to stop smoking, and pediatricians have many opportunities. About one out of every four parents with small children responds to interventions to help them quit smoking, which…
If you see how tobacco is prepared, you’ll quit now!
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The responsibility of the media lies in propagating messages against tobacco consumption in every form, and about the obligation that falls on political and religious leaders for spreading the public service message. This was stated at a consultation meeting titled…
I’ve been casually smoking for 10 years
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’ve been a very casual smoker for about 10 years – but I only do it around my friends who smoke. This ends up being about 3 cigarettes a week. There’s something about my friends smoking that triggers a mental…
How to quit smoking ..for good
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Make 2012 the year you finally stub out that cigarette habit with our lowdown on the newest, most effective ways to give up.. Of the 10 million Brits who smoke, most admit they’d love to stop – and many will…
Geisinger will stop hiring smokers
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Health care provider announces that tobacco users will not get jobs. Smokers need not apply. Starting Feb. 1, Geisinger will no longer hire applicants who use tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars and chewing or smokeless tobacco, the health system announced…
Baby steps help keep resolutions
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WITH Christmas done and dusted, it is time to set those New Year’s resolutions we never seem to achieve. But, there is hope. Whether your goal be to burn off that Christmas day lunch plus a few more unwanted kilos,…
Quit these 10 gross habits
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The new year is time to turn over a new leaf and put some of your bad habits behind you. While many will try to lose weight or quit smoking – admirable goals, indeed – the new year should also…
Program Eyes How to Make Pigtown Stop Smoking
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The corner stores in Pigtown don’t do “loosies” anymore. Selling cigarettes out of the pack is illegal, and they don’t mess with that (at least not openly). But they do sell ’em by the pack, and the carton, and the…
Quitting smoking helps mental well-being
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What holds a smoker back from trying, or possibly even wanting, to quit their habit? Fear that their health will deteriorate without a constant stream of tar-filled smoke going into their lungs is unlikely to be a concern. What can…
Quit-smoking program for teens uses tech tools
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Many smokers will resolve to quit on New Year’s Day— and if some health educators have their way, increasing numbers of quitters will be teenagers, on Jan. 1 and throughout the year. The National Cancer Institute is rolling out a…
Farmers plan to stop making tobacco deliveries
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Tobacco farmers in Migori and Kuria districts have threatened to boycott deliveries to a tobacco Company due to delayed payments of their dues amounting to more than Sh100 million. The farmers say they don’t have money to take their children…
Improvements in nation’s health stalled after years of progress
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Economic downturn and rising rates of diabetes and obesity contributed to the halted progress, officials say. In light of a recent report showing that improvement in the nation’s health has stalled, public health officials are encouraging physicians to go into…
Lessons not learned from a little man’s smoke-filled lungs
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Let me take you back to my teen years when I was trapped like a rat one day at the county fair by some of the dear ladies of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. They surrounded me, virtually taking me…